The first annual Environmental Futures Fair at the Jordan Lake Visitor Assistance Center – April 27, 2019 JORDAN LAKE DAM USACE Hosted by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the fair was devised to bring awareness to outdoor careers and volunteer opportunities. WILDLIFE This sunbathing Brown Snake and Green Anole were not […]
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A month in which Bob traveled to Houston and Ardmore, we upgraded our transportation system, licked our lips in anticipation of summer eats, wandered around the Bynum hydroelectric plant, enjoyed slow home cooking, and celebrated 20 years of neighborhood networking at Trail Crawl. LAST OF THE COLLARDS We enjoyed collard greens from our
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Those seeds we planted last month, watered every day, turned into starts beneath the lights in the back room. Meanwhile, day length grew an hour, from 11 hours 24 minutes to 12 and 32, inspiring all kinds of activity outside. It is nice to see the world come back to life. – March 25, 2019
This year’s annual Trail Crawl marked twenty years of fun and tradition – March 31, 2019 SUSAN’s GARDEN Shelley and Eric enter Susan’s phlox paradise, a place where plants of all seasons, including the early-blooming Japanese quince, flourish in harmony. OLIVIA’s HANDIWORK You can tell from this splendid spread that
We packed a lot into the shortest month of the year. Bob was on the road for 22 out of 28 days, spending two weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area, training with the SCS Global admin team and visiting friends, before flying off to Arizona and Tennessee to conduct sustainability audits. Camille spent much
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Mild weather and an abundance of spare time repeatedly lures Camille into the woods – February 3-18 SHAGBARK HICKORY Only one tree wears strips of bark that wave at wayward walkers. TRAIL AND SKY A cowrie shell tops the cairn at Trouts Farm and Sweet Sixteen. This time of year, the
Bob was on the road for a good portion of the month while Camille stuck around the home place and hung out with her friends. Life’s pleasures are not always equitably distributed. BROCCOLI SPAWNS HOME GROWN ADDICTION Camille flushes with inordinate pride over the simplest of accomplishments, a head of back yard broccoli. Although
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Travel, travel, travel. Travel for work and travel for pleasure. Bob goes to Liberty, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois for his auditing work and we both spend some time in Colorado visiting family and friends and strolling down memory lane to the Big Thompson River with Amy before returning to good old North Carolina for down
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Mixing business with pleasure, Bob and Camille flew to Denver for a week with family and friends – December 2 – 10, 2018 SHIRLEY Nothing beats sitting in the sun with a good friend. While Bob was off auditing Kansas farms, Camille ran around Denver with Shirley. This little park, a stone’s throw
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Art and flowers, home improvements, a grand opening, fall foliage, a meal that couldn’t be beat, and local food abundance. ART IS WHERE YOU FIND IT In a bouquet of azalea, hydrangea, ginger, and asparagus, or inside a stainless steel tank of in-process apple brandy. BOUNTY BEFORE THE FROST Giant white
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