James- Great ash photos! Nice and sunny! -Don
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:57:40 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Fall Mountain Ash To: [email protected] ENTS, How is everybody? It's been a little while since I have posted. It has been an eventful year for me and my family. To put it shortly, financial problems, a reduction in both my pay and my wife's pay, a new grandaughter, and my stepson has been stationed in Iraq. My daughter has also moved further away from me which has depressed me a bit. I have been in the woods less this year than in years. This years highpoint was the ENTS trip to Congaree. I am still around and still love trees. This last summer I did do some fishing with Brian ( My stepson ) before he left for Iraq and I caught a 24 pound carp and won 550 bucks by it being the biggest fish caught that night in the fishing derby. Anyway, I am overdue and have a post to do from back in the fall, so here goes... A couple of weeks apart, back in the fall, Joy and I along with the Tench family went on a couple of hikes on Craggy Pinnacle and Sam's Knob. Craggy Pinnacle is located going north from Asheville on the Blue Ridge Parkway on the left before reaching Mt. Mitchell. Sam Knob is accessed at the end of Black Balsam Rd which is on the right just past Graveyard Fields going south from Asheville on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The American Mountain Ash trees, which are a major component of the forest canopy above 4,500 feet were very colorful this year. They had more berries this year than I have seen since 2003. Along with Hawthorn & Holly they are arguably my favorite trees. I hope all of you are having a wonderful HOLLYday season Check out the pictures. James Parton -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail gives you a free,exclusive gift. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_7:092009 -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
