Yesterday, on my way home from school, I specifically noticed one yard near the school that was super green.  Today on my way home from school, I noticed that same yard except in one 24 hour period it went from being super green to blanketed with the light blue hue of hundreds if not thousands of scroph plants.  It occured to me then, that it was time to do another flower blog as I have noticed over the last week other things beginning to bloom such as the daffodils and maple trees.  So here ...
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Every year, when Mother Nature gets that spring in her step again, I think to myself, "I should make a record of when I see plants blooming for the first time this year," not only because it would be interesting to have a time line of what flowers show their heads first....but also because, well, I'm a dork when it comes to things like that. : ) So, after years of thinking this but not bothering to do it, I am going to try and accomplish it this year. This blog then is a visual representation...
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These pics are from a hike I took on Signal Mountain one beautiful day last fall. The hike is roughly a 7 mile loop from Signal Point down over Middle Creek and up to Eddie's Point including the return. It had rained for several days before this hike and so I was lucky to get some really nice pictures of mushrooms along the trail. Unfortunately, I am not well versed in the subject of mycology, so I will not be able to accurately identify what these mushrooms are, like I can with plants, but I...
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In 2003, about a year before I decided that teaching would be my path in life, I saved up some money, quit my then job as an environmental specialist for a consulting company and traveled out west for three months. I left Tennessee and went west through Arkansas and into the grand old southwest visiting Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada before trekking through Death Valley and into California.  On my trip, I tried to go to every national park I passed and the result was a circuitous route ...
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