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What I Saw When Walking in the Woods at Chucalissa –
Robert Connolly�
I am taking a nature course in a few weeks, cause all I know is that these are purple flowers in some privet (and I am color-‐blind, no less).
Solomon’s Seal, or so sayeth the sign, in our herb garden.
Urban garden that is planted, maintained, and harvested by members of the Westwood Neighborhood AssociaFon.
Three Sisters garden ready for planFng. On April 19th as part of our Earth Day event, families are invited to make a hill and plant, then maintain and harvest their own hill of Three Sisters (corn, beans, and squash) in the style of the NaFve Americans during the prehistoric era.
Trail head that lead’s into our arboretum and plant sanctuary. This always reminds me of the first Fme I pulled onto the Natchez Trace going north from Natchez Mississippi. It was an incredibly hot day with lots of traffic congesFon. HiSng the Trace was like going down the Yellow Brick Road to Oz.
I like the tangle of branches, greens and purples looking through an excavaFon trench in a residenFal area dug by the University of Tennessee in the early 1940s.
I asked Jeremy from our last AmeriCorps Team if he could build some sort of wriFng desk away from the trail and behind a big tree. I had in mind to put a typewriter in the desk, assuming it would last a few weeks before rusFng out. I like the playfulness and creaFvity that the desk invites.
The AmeriCorps Team built this rain shelter (designed by Allison) as a place to get out of the rain or just to sit and think.
The next few images are from my favorite parts of the forest – what I call grapevines and their magical swirls and loops among the verFcal trunks and the green.
Mayapple – which grows in abundance throughout the forest