Today’s Ramble was led by Linda Chafin.

Here’s the link to Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. Don also has posted a sequence of photos showing the aggressive encounter between two Carolina anoles; description later in this post. (All the photos in this post
are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Don Hunter and Linda Chafin with a
few additions by Dale Hoyt.

Twenty-two Ramblers met today.

Announcements:

Emily
announced that the cancelled April 5th walk at Sandy Creek Nature Center has
been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 3. 
Mike Wharton will lead the walk through the managed forest project areas
recently cleared and planted.

There
are still a few openings for the Rock and Shoals walk this Saturday.  Meet at the Shade Garden arbor to car pool
over to the trail head. An excellent survey of the geology, history and flora
of Georgia’s granite outcrops is available at this
link.

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Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

Here’s the link to Don’s Facebook album from today’s Ramble. (All the photos in this
post are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt.

Twenty-nine Ramblers today.

Red-bellied snake

In lieu of a reading this morning we passed
around a small Red-bellied snake, brought in by Jeff. He found the snake in

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Today’s Ramble was lead by Linda Chafin.

Here’s the link to Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. (All
the photos in this post are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt and Don
Hunter.

Twenty Ramblers met today.

Today’s reading: Linda
read Weather by Faith Shearin. You
can find it here. Linda also thought that
Ramblers would find this piece about the benefits of
walking in nature of interest.

Announcements: Guided walk at Sandy Creek Nature Center
9:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 5.  Mike
Wharton will be leading a walk through the areas recently cleared and planted
as part of the managed forest project at the center. (You can always check our Announcements page for the latest information about upcoming events.)

Today’s route: On the other side of the parking area to
examine a Red Buckeye, the down the mulched path to the Dunson Native Flora
Garden. Then through the garden at our usual “speed of botany.”

Frost damaged leaves and male cones of Ginkgo

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Today’s Ramble was lead by Dale Hoyt.

Here’s the linkto Don’s Facebook album for today’s Ramble. (All the photos in this post
are compliments of Don.)

Today’s post was written by Don Hunter and
Linda Chafin.

30 Ramblers today

Announcement: The
Athens Historical Society will conduct a Ramble
in the Ruins around the old Athens Brick Company site at Sandy Creek Nature
Center on Saturday, March 25, 3:00 p.m. Details can
be found here.

Today’s
route:  Leaving the Shade Garden arbor
we made our way along the back of the conservatory and through the Heritage
Garden on the way to the path down to the Orange Trail spur from the Flower
Gardens down to the Orange Trail and it’s creek.

American South Renovation Garden:

Georgia Rockcress

Georgia
Rockcress (Arabis
georgiana) was recently listed

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Today’s report was jointly written by Don Hunter and
Linda Chafin with additions by Dale Hoyt. Don’s album of photos from today’s ramble can be found here.

33 Ramblers today.

Today’s readings:
Bob Ambrose recited one of his new creations: Reverie – Afternoon in the
Botanical Garden and Marguerite read Howard Nemerov’s Trees.

Today’s route: We began with an observation
of the Ginkgo trees at the Shade Garden arbor then walked down the Shade Garden
walkway to the Dunson Native Flora Garden. We walked through the Dunson Garden
to the head of the wetlands display and returned the same way back to the Shade
Garden arbor, and, for many, on to the Visitor Center to the Cafe Botanica for
socializing over food and drink.

Gingko short shoots and pollen cones

Ginkgo
trees at the Shade Garden Arbor.

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