Ramble Report October 27, 2022

Ramble Report October 27, 2022

Leaders for today's Ramble: Jean Lodge and Bill Sheehan

Authors of today’s Ramble report: Jean Lodge and Bill Sheehan. Comments, edits, and suggestions for the report can be sent to Linda at Lchafin@uga.edu.

Link to Don’s Facebook album for this Ramble. All the photos that appear in this report, unless otherwise credited, were taken by Don Hunter. Photos may be enlarged by clicking them with your mouse or tapping your screen.

Number of Ramblers today: 27

Today's emphasis: Fungi

Today's Route: From the Children’s Garden arbor, we headed down through the “Chestnut Tree” to the White Trail, which we followed down the hill to the Middle Oconee River floodplain.  We returned via the same route.
 

Ramble Report October 20, 2022

 Leader for today's Ramble: Heather

Authors of today’s Ramble report: Linda, Heather, Don. Comments, edits, and suggestions for the report can be sent to Linda at Lchafin@uga.edu.

Link to Don’s Facebook album for this Ramble. All the photos that appear in this report, unless otherwise credited, were taken by Don Hunter. Photos may be enlarged by clicking them with your mouse or tapping your screen.

Number of Ramblers today: 21

Today's emphasis: Frost flowers and other frosty things in the prairie and floodplain

Ramble Report October 13, 2022

 

Leader for today's Ramble: Linda

Authors of today’s Ramble report: Linda, Bill, and Don. Comments, edits, and suggestions for the report can be sent to Linda at Lchafin@uga.edu.

Gall, fungi, and animal identifications: Bill Sheehan, Don Hunter, Heather Larkin

Link to Don’s Facebook album for this Ramble. All the photos that appear in this report, unless otherwise credited, were taken by Don Hunter. Click on any photo to enlarge it.

Number of Ramblers today: 10

Today's emphasis: Seeking what we find on the Orange and Purple Trails

Reading: “Fall” by Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019)

the black oaks fling
their bronze fruit
into all the pockets of the earth
pock pock

they knock against the thresholds
the roof the sidewalk
fill the eaves
the bottom line

of the old gold song
of the almost finished year
what is spring all that tender
green stuff

compared to this
falling of tiny oak trees
out of the oak trees
then the clouds

gathering thick along the west
then advancing
then closing over
breaking open

the silence
then the rain
dashing its silver seeds
against the house

Ramble Report October 6, 2022

Leader for today's Ramble: Linda 

Authors of today’s Ramble report: Linda. Comments, edits, and suggestions for the report can be sent to Linda at Lchafin@uga.edu. 

Insect identifications: Heather Larkin, Bill Sheehan, Don Hunter

Number of Ramblers today: 28

Today's emphasis: Seeking what we find in grasslands and forests