It’s been so long since I posted that I’ve almost forgotten how! I hadn’t planned to be so busy these past few months, but somehow it happened. Fortunately, most of the activity was welcome, visiting family and friends in Georgia and Alabama. Highlights included rambles on a farm in Georgia in April and on another farm near Bankston, Alabama, where we walked up Beaver creek in the afternoon and that night watched a string of Starlink satellites and the ISS pass over. And then we saw the Aurora Borealis! In Alabama!
Here in the Hollow, the deer have changed from winter coats of gray to summer brown, most of the pregnant does have had their fawns (although I’ve seen only one), and Itsy and the yearling bucks have started growing their velvet-covered antlers.
If you’ve followed my rambles for a while, you should be aware that I love seeing the Eastern Box Turtles that live in the Hollow. I often see the same ones on my rambles and recognize some that I’ve seen year after year. This year one somehow got into my vegetable garden and very happy when I watered! And one of my neighbors found a baby turtle near his shop!
Today I found this guy burying himself in the mud/muck at the bottom of the creek.
Of course, there have been flowers and mushrooms and other interesting things, but I hear thunder and hungry cats, so I think this will have to do for now.
French Broad Hollow Ramble 