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Friday, June 26, 2009

fun at work!

Last Thursday, while driving home from my campfire program, this was the wonderful view I enjoyed:

view off the parkway

Then on Friday, I worked up at the C.G. visitor center where we get to have a one hour rove/hike.  It was a BEAUTIFUL day and the catawba rhodendron were blooming along with some flame azalea.

view from Craggy Pinnacle

The trail was even beautiful with the blooms along the forest floor.

blooms on the trail

Sometimes, I just can't believe that this is my job!  I sure am lucky!

Friday, June 19, 2009

rainy spring/summer and work

Our garden is loving all the rain it has been getting this year! We've been enjoying peas, broccoli, squash and cucumbers from it all ready. Luckily, we started the zuchini a few weeks after the yellow squash...we are all ready having to give away about 3-4 squash a day and if we had zuchini on top of that people might not really appreciate it!

Yesterday afternoon, it downpoured rain for about 15-20 minutes and there were gusts of wind that were so strong I was kind of worried some of the trees were gonna blow down! When I wandered around to tell people about my campfire program, I was only able to find about 8 people at their campsites so I was afraid that there wouldn't be anyone at the program. But luckily, I had a good crowd show up who was really fun.

There was one person there with a large camera who kept standing up and taking photos from different angles, too bad he didn't come talk to me afterwards and I could have asked him to email me some pics of myself and I would have been able to post them!!

Monday, June 1, 2009

sunny weekend!

This past weekend we attended a friend's wedding.  It was located about an hour away from us in the woods.  It was very beautiful with a creek running right by the camping area and the reception area.  We walked up a bit to where the wedding ceremony was and it was this open field area with beautiful views up to the ridge tops.  The ceremony was very nice and the bride and groom were happy

Then we met some biking friends for a nice bike ride with many creek crossings!

wildflower hike in the rain

Maddy & Amie


Last weekend, we went on a beautiful hike in the rain.  We explored and wandered up a creek for a lovely afternoon.  We saw so many different flowers and it was cool to id  the flowers that we did not know.



Mat id'ing out wild stonecrop


Mat figuring out what this is growing on the rock in a stream.


Foamflower


Foamflower


Mayapple


Mayapple


wild stonecrop


Wild Stonecrop


Umbrella Leaf


Umbrella Leaf (check out how big the leaf is!)


violet


Violet


I am still so amazed at how green everything is out here.  The rain has been very helpful this spring and it feels almost tropical at the moment!