The Natchez Trace was a wagon path which ran for almost 500 miles from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi. It began as an Indian path and was noted by the first white explorers in the area. It was used extensively in the early 19th century and then began to be…
Category Archives: places
symposium
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Just got back from a three-day symposium on native plants and prairies in Georgetown, Texas, jointly sponsored by the Native Plant Society of Texas and the Native Prairie Association of Texas. Over 400 people attended the event which was chock-full of great speakers and great ideas, about which I will have…
up the lazy river
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Our neighbor has his deckboat running again and one cool morning last week he called and asked if we wanted to go up the river. Of course. We had never been up the little creek that flows into the lake we live on. We had heard it was an interesting…
view from clayton mountain
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
About halfway between our place and the village where sits our post office and a few other establishments we visit as the need arises, the road passes by Clayton Mountain. Now visitors usually complain that it is not really a mountain. And as mountains go it certainly doesn’t seem very…
impressions of a small town
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Tricia’s costumed quilting demo last week netted an invitation for a repeat performance Saturday at a celebration in the neighboring town of Strawn. Once again I went along for the ride, armed with a stack of my native plant brochures.
The day started off with a parade and then we settled…