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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