Summer
Rose of Sharon
The Golden Rain Tree
The Golden Rain Tree at the Belmont visitor center — Koelreuteria paniculata.
Mimosa morning
7am July 7th at the northwest end of Harwill Drive
First thing dog walk
Belmont’s Eagle
Hyperion Saturday
I stayed away 15 months hiding from Covid but now I’m back: Fredericksburg Area Runners Club’s weekly 10k no-frills run from Hyperion Espresso. Photo by club president Brian Pessolano.
Thanks Tim!
Tim and I assembled and installed this from about a thousand pieces which arrived last week in a box shipped from China via a long rest in California. Below, a month later, I put down some turf.
Currituck Banks Refuge
We took a two-mile stroll on the sound-side nature walk at Corolla, where NC Route 12 becomes 4WD-only then continues north, literally on the beach. The nature walk winds through the live oak woodland, with just one viewpoint on the Currituck Sound.
Meanwhile, about that time somewhere above us, my friend Mike Bussey was jumping out of an aeroplane. He got a better view of the canal connecting the Albemarle and Currituck Sounds to the Chesapeake Bay. We only glimpsed the canal when crossing by road.