Tendrils

Month: November 2013

  • Snow!

    I’m easily entertained. Give me a little snowfall and I’ll be elated for hours. I’ll become the little girl from so long ago. The little girl who grew up on the best sledding hill in Prince George’s Co., Maryland. Other things take me back to my childhood. Bicycling does it too. But snow provides the…

  • A Whole New World

    Life At A Different Level I was greeted by a whole new world yesterday, as I hiked up the mountain. I’d been down in Florida and not able to check on things up here for more than a week. When I left, autumn was on the downswing. Now, I am greeted by what looks like…

  • A Day Of Chestnut Trees And Berries

    Yes!  American Chestnut Trees! I was pleased this morning to be able to tell a dear friend that the trees he thought might be American Chestnuts, Castanea dentata, were indeed, the not often found species. Yay! This is good. I had mixed feelings though, because at the same time, I had to tell him that his trees would definitely…

  • A Beauty Of A Berry

    Color Me Disappointed Nearly all the time, when I create a blog, it is the result of research.  I’m learning new things, right along with you.  Tonight I learned that the bushes I am pleased with – being beautiful and native, are actually not native.  Well, that certainly is a surprise! The Impostor Revealed The telling…

  • Bears In The Forest

    Sighting When I arrived back home after my hike this afternoon, I saw a moving blur of coal-black. The unmistakeable blur of a quickly moving bear, trying to avoid detection. I was approaching my front steps. He was quickly entering the woods. My two cameras that I carry with me, were at the ready, but…

  • Red Maple Common Beauty

    Red Maple Common Beauty

    Ubiquitous This fall, as I hike the steep and not so steep slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains, I see many, many Red Maples. Reading various websites and books to get information on the tree, I am not surprised to learn that this is the most common deciduous tree in eastern North America. Yes, it…