Tag: #Virginia

  • Poetry & Art Festival at the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont

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    September Festival The BGP Art Festival kicked off today – and the garden in Charlottesville is full of excerpts from poems by local poets, gorgeous photographs by Laurie Tennent, and many fall flowers, from the glorious yellows of wingstem, goldenrods, and sneezeweed–with its brown pincushion centers–to the purples of Joe Pye Weed, asters, and ironweed…

  • Camping Tales

    Camping Tales

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    After testing many models of “teardrop” camping trailers for a few years by renting them through Outdoorsy, I finally ordered a small Hiker Trailer in Nov 2022 and we drove to Indianapolis to pick it up in February 2023. In the 2 years since buying it we’ve made 11 trips, including the one to bring…

  • Wild Ink Walk

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    Join me Saturday July 12th, 9-12:30 to explore the intersection of 3 practices: walking outdoors, mindfulness, and creativity. Focusing on the 5 senses, this walk will include periods of walking and close observation interspersed with brief 15 minute writing and/or drawing exercises (using provided prompts or following your own muse). Hosted by The Nature Foundation…

  • Lost, Spiders, Fungi

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    Minutes From Home We head out into the fine mist of a damp evening, just getting dark, ostensibly to look for mushrooms, not foraging exactly, but just to see what’s come up in the last damp days. First off we see clumps of Ghost Pipe, having pushed up through and some still wearing caps of…

  • Flowers & Snakes

    Flowers & Snakes

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    A recent camping trip to a National Forest area west of Douthat State Park took us up to Bald Knob on one of the prettiest trails I’ve ever hiked – along a creek and through several kinds of terrain, including a recovering burn area that was packed with wild azalea and many birds. This trail…

  • Sproing!

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    A few recent sightings on walks in the woods from late March through the first week in April. The Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foeditus) with its weird flower (spadix = a ball of tiny flowers) tucked inside the marbled spathe is one of my favorites. All of these have made their way into my poems in…