Leader
for today’s Ramble: Dan Williams, forester/geologist

Authors
of today’s Ramble report: Dan Williams (text and captions with quotation marks are taken from Dan’s book, Tree Facts and Folklore: Identification, Ecology, Uses (traditional and modern), and Folklore of Southeastern Trees) and Linda. 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 a mouse or tapping on
your screen.

Number
of Ramblers today: 36

Today’s
emphasis: Trees in their wintery condition along the Purple Trail

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Leader
for today’s Ramble: Linda

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

Insect and fungi
identifications: Don
Hunter, Bill Sheehan, 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. Photos may be enlarged by clicking them with a mouse or tapping on
your screen.

Number
of Ramblers today: 30

Today’s
emphasis: Seeking what we find in the Middle Oconee River floodplain

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Ramble Report November 3, 2022

Leader
for today’s Ramble:
Linda

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

Insect
and fungi identifications: Don Hunter, Bill Sheehan

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 a mouse or tapping on your screen.

Number of Ramblers today: 26

Today’s
emphasis: Changing leaf color and
other transitions from summer to fall in a Piedmont Oak-Hickory-Pine forest.

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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.
 

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 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

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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

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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

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Leader
for today’s Ramble: Gary
Crider, the Botanical Garden’s invasive plant control technician

Authors
of today’s Ramble report: Gary Crider and Linda

All
the photos
that appear in this report, unless otherwise credited, were taken by Don
Hunter. Some photos were also taken from the internet, with gratitude to the
photographers who make their work freely available to the public through
Wikimedia Commons.

Number
of Ramblers today: 10

Today’s
emphasis: The Garden’s invasive plant removal program

Reading: Gary read two quotes
that sum up the critical importance of controlling exotic species:

 “…the two great destroyers of biodiversity
are first, habitat destruction and, second, invasion by exotic species.” E.O.
Wilson

“We
have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native
animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural
manipulation of their environment in time to negate the consequences. Their
only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs
that we have perpetrated.” Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How
Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens 

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Ramble Report for September 22, 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: Don
Hunter. Don’t miss some amazing insect photos taken by Don earlier in the week.

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.

Number of
Ramblers today: 14

Today’s
emphasis: Warm-season grasses

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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 and Don Hunter

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.

Number of
Ramblers today: 20

Today’s
emphasis: Fall Wildflowers

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