Ramble Report August 23 2018

Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

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

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt.

Today’s Focus:
Butterflies in the Flower Garden.

35 Ramblers met today.

Announcements:

1.    
Trail Guide training at Sandy Creek Nature
Center (SCNC) on Wednesday, August 29, Thursday, August 30, or Friday, August
31 from 9-12. You only need to attend one session.

2.    
Guided Ramble at SCNC on Wednesday, September 5
at 9 am, followed by coffee and treats. Carmen Champagne will lead us on a walk
looking for spiders and insects. She is great at spotting and identifying
plants and animals and quite knowledgeable about the life history of the
animals we find.

Today’s reading:
Bob Ambrose treated us to another of his original compositions: Dawn
Dreams in a Glasgow Café
.

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Ramble Report August 9 2018

Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

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.

Today’s Focus:

34 Ramblers met today.

Today’s reading:
Dale read the July 20th entry from An Almanac for Moderns by Donald Culross Peattie (1898 – 1964),
published in 1935.

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Ramble Report August 2 2018

Today’s Ramble was led by Dale Hoyt.

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

Today’s post was written by Dale Hoyt.

11 Ramblers met today.

Today’s reading:
No reading today.

Today’s route:
Down the access road to the passionflower vines, then up the hill to the
prairie patch and then return to the Visitor Center.

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