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Mountain Laurel Is Out

 

 

Saturday

National Trails Day Booths At Byrd's Visitor Center

 

 

 An Appalachian Trail Ramble

Fly Poison

White Oak Ranger Compound

SUNDAY

 

Old Rag Reverse Circuit



Old Rag Shelter

 

LUSH

 

Late Afternoon After The Rain Smokey  Misty Summit and Ridge Trail



Saturday&Sunday May 31, June 1, 2014

 

 

Saturday On Old Rag

Sunday Simulated Bear Victim WFA

Saturday, May 31, 2014 and Sunday, June 1, 2014

 

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SATURDAY

It was a gorgeous day.    When I arrived at the parking lot there were at least 60 cars overflowing into the neighbors pasture.    Lots of happy hikers on Old Rag on Saturday.  

 

 

 

 

 Wonderful Cluster Of Lady's Slippers

Lady's do not transplant successfully they require a very unique environment including having specific co-located fungus that they share a  symbiotic relationship with.    Please enjoy them Where they are.    There are  already trails which because of bad human behavior no longer have Lady Slippers when once they did.     Do disturb them in hopes that they will be there for future generations.   From USDA Forest Service Website....  

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/cypripedium_acaule.shtml

......" In order to survive and reproduce, pink lady's slipper interacts with a fungus in the soil from the Rhizoctonia genus. Generally, orchid seeds do not have food supplies inside them like most other kinds of seeds. Pink lady’s slipper seeds require threads of the fungus to break open the seed and attach them to it. The fungus will pass on food and nutrients to the pink lady's slipper seed. When the lady’s slipper plant is older and producing most of its own nutrients, the fungus will extract nutrients from the orchid roots. This mutually beneficial relationship between the orchid and the fungus is known as “symbiosis” and is typical of almost all orchid species."

Bluetts

Pinxters

 

Sunset 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dusk Shots

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY

I am all MOULAGED as a bear attack victim.   Slash wounds on head and back.   One finger missing.    The students did a great job on me and the two other patients who had even more serious injuries than mine.

Emergency Response Training LLC  of Frederick Maryland

 http://www.onthetrailfirstaid.com/

has been doing a great job providing Wilderness First Aid WFA and CPR training for the Potomac  Appalachian Trail Club for many years.    I like to try and help them at least once a year by volunteering to be a simulated patient for one of their classes.    I find it to be fun and I usually learn a lot by doing it.

Sat.&Sun May 11&12, 2014 Mother's Day Rosser Lamb Cabin

 

Mother's Day

Rosser Lamb Cabin

Turkey Nest In The Woods

Wild Turkey nest and eggs near Rosser Lamb Cabin

Using a 20X telephoto allowed this shot while staying 40 feet away.

 

FAQ page about Wild Turkey State of Pennsylvania:

 

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=622246&mode=2

 

Rosser Lamb Cabin

This PATC cabin allows one to live like an Appalachian family one hundred years ago and before the SNP.   A link to some history: http://www.pecva.org/index.php/maps-and-resources/publications/piedmont-view/164-summer-2012-piedmont-view/697-hike-revisits-life-in-the-mountains


Please check out this intro video for the Piedmont Environmental Council:

http://www.pecva.org/about

 

 



 

 

Trilliums



Louise 



Lamb Family Cemetary

Showy Orchis

Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galearis_spectabilis



 John's Rest Cabin



 

Darwin and Squaw Root

Darwin is one of the famous scientist finger puppets traveling with science professors and lab staff from Louise's educational institution this summer.   They take pictures of them during their travels and before the Fall semester begins they make a big display of  traveling finger puppet pictures. 

 

Louise snapping Darwin's picture as he lectures her on the origin of species.

Darwin and Showy Orchis

Darwin and a Pileated Woodpecker Hole



Me Robert Look(Bob) and Darwin

Rosser Lamb House1913-today

  

THE PATC CABIN RENTAL WEB PAGE DESCRIPTION:

http://www.patc.net/PublicView/Custom/PATC_Cabins/Rosser_Lamb_Feature.aspx



 

A link to a photo-diary of another groups trip to the Rosser Lamb farm house:

 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CD8QFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgallery3.jwbasecamp.com%2FRosser-Lamb-2012-M%2F&ei=oAtyU8fhN46oyATZhoHABg&usg=AFQjCNHUnkWS7ayK7IBMKgVE0Jnrs-03eg&sig2=Sg3DFxi-UpvzYuGepKvOxw

 

 

Entry Run There Is A Nice Cascade/Falls Between John's Rest Cabin and the Rosser Lamb Farmhouse.



 

Louise Casey Louise Casey Robert Look Louise Casey

Appalachian Ephemerals

 

Appalachian Ephemerals

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Four Weeks, One Of The Shortest Growing Seasons On The Planet

 

 

 

 

  Louise (the fantastubularidicool, Mom, sister, daughter, in-law, neighbor, Houstonian, New Yorker, Mossrocker, Girl Scout, retired Wyoming shepherd, better half, friend, plant biologist, naturalist, plant person, Mesozoic Garden creator, College Adjunct, professional Lab Manger, ......) with me at Assateague summer 2013.

A reminder that summer time beach weather is just around the corner.

 

Another Old Rag Sunset

 

 

 

 

 

Birds Foot Violets

Trillium

 

Auricularia auricula-judae   Jew's Ear, Wood Ear, Jelly Ear 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae

Bluettes

Serviceberry Bush

http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/the-amazing-serviceberry.aspx#axzz318d5WTYP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelanchier

http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2010/04/the-sarvis-tree-is-blooming-in-appalachia.html

Chickweed

"Stunning spring wildflowers.

Because the temperate forest’s dense leaf canopy shades the forest floor all summer long, there are only four weeks in spring during which sturdy spring wildflowers can burst out of the ground, flower, and refill their energy reserves before the trees block life-giving sunlight. By June these highly ephemeral flowers have gone to seed and dormancy. They will wait another year for their place in the sun, having one of the shortest growing seasons on the planet. The unified timing of this mass flowering is one of nature’s most beautiful forest spectacles, and no other forest type can quite rival it. This is quite different from tropical rainforests, where the blooming seasons of flowers are scattered throughout the entire year. "

The above is taken from the Arc Of Appalachia website found at:

http://arcofappalachia.org/biome/invisible-forest.html