tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35322012024371277372024-02-19T02:46:55.513-08:00ROSEMARY'S ADVENTURESROSEMARY'S ADVENTURES: I love adventures and intend to have lots of them as I approach being three-fourths of a century old. I'll share my thoughts, experiences, and photographs.Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-18626647388469045682017-02-18T13:41:00.000-08:002017-02-18T13:41:23.082-08:00LAST POST OF THIS BLOG<h3>
PLAYING CATCH-UP</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My year celebrating becoming three-fourths of a century old was jam-packed with adventures, just as I had hoped for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I intended to write a round-up essay in December 2016 but life got complicated. (I’ll tell you about that at the bottom of this entry.) So my tenses in this entry are all mixed up: from past, to present, to future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First I want to backtrack a bit and describe a most wonderful wedding where I cried a lot. In August my surrogate son, Hoi Pang, married his best friend and long-time partner, Gerry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I met Hoi Pang when he was a graduate student in the department where I was the office manager. We became close friends and, because his real mother lived in Malaysia, I became his U.S. mom.<br /><br />I missed him a lot when Hoi Pang got his doctorate and moved to Boston to live with Gerry about twenty years ago. But thanks to their kindness I was able to visit them up there. When I turned 70 the three of us celebrated my birthday at a gorgeous restaurant on the ocean near Big Sur in California. The entire trip was my present along with a special outfit to wear. Isn’t this so very generous and loving of them? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a little bit about their well-planned wedding. I could rave on and on about the elegance, beauty and wonderful family and friends I met but will describe two aspects which were so very special to me.<br /><br />Hoi Pang’s school friend from Malaysia was introduced to me by email because we were to share a room at the Boston waterfront hotel. Aru is also going to read a selection during the ceremony. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We help each other with jewelry and alarm clocks in our shared room, eat meals together, take walks, go to an art museum and concert, and take a tourist bus around Boston. This is such a kindness Hoi Pang gives to both of us.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aru in the Art Museum</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aru Capturing the Sunset</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fountain Fun on the Greenway</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the wedding rehearsal I learn the best thing of all. I will be seated on the front row along with Hoi Pang’s real mother and sister and will be treated like a mother in a special Chinese wedding custom. I cry then, and during most of the ceremony, and now as I write this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">NON-WEDDING ADVENTURES: </span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">After I come back from England (via Istanbul), I have
several adventures in the woods before the end of the year. Kathy and I
join Forest Watch to see huge trees in the flood plain of Murder Creek
in Georgia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Right before Christmas, Marguerite and I investigate the swampy area of Congaree National Park in South Carolina. Here’s a little video about that adventure. Just click: <a href="https://youtu.be/c9rOESwR1BQ" target="_blank">Congaree National Park.</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reflections of the Swamp Cypress</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marguerite On The 2 Mile Boardwalk</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Two exceptional singing opportunities come up: Raising money for the Loran Smith Cancer Support Center as part of the 50 Shades of Gray Chorus, and singing with the Athens Symphony Chorus for the annual Christmas Concert. What a thrill singing with 110 singers and a full orchestra.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The empty seat on the first row is mine. Athens Symphony Chorus and Orchestra.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE END </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">January to December 2016 was a bonanza year of adventures as I celebrated turning 75. This is the end of this blog. <br /><br />On November 11, I was diagnosed with wet macular degeneration by a retinal ophthalmologist. So down some unknown length of road, I will not be able to drive safely. On top of brain damage from six concussions, it seems time to move to a simpler location — one where I won’t have three acres to manage and can walk to stores and the library. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I’ll start a new blog talking about how this situation is developing. I already have a title for the new blog: “Just Fine From The Neck Down.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Thank you so very much for reading these blog entries and writing to me (below) or by email at </i>rwoodel.woodel@gmail.com.<i></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-8022660770763975542016-11-30T08:24:00.000-08:002016-11-30T08:24:49.885-08:00DON'T MAKE THIS MISTAKE AGAIN!<h3>
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Heading Home</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I get sad and scared early this morning. Very sad to be leaving my sisters, Judy and Sally. Scared because I know this return trip home will be tough physically and emotionally. I want to be up to it. In my e-mail I receive an inspirational essay on resilience and determination: “Persevering does not mean being rigid and fixed, but flowing like water, willing to meet the conditions at hand yet never giving up.” <br /><br />And I get an e-mail from my friend Susan, who reminds me she has been lighting a candle for me each day while I’ve been gone and won’t stop till I get back. And messages from friends who say they miss me. Brings me to tears while it strengthens me.<br /><br />After breakfast, Judy and I walk in Crane Park. Judy and Sally are so lucky to have a beautiful park in walking distance from their homes in Twickenham. Everyone on the path this morning has kids or dogs. I point out a terrific spider web to passing children, who are amazed by its intricacy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">At 1:00 we walk to a restaurant in Twickenham Green, which used to be a men’s loo (the restaurant, that is). Carol and Simon, Sally, Kathy and Paul meet us there. I look at everything around us while enjoying crab cakes, thinking it will be a long time before I return. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I shower and finish packing at Judy’s place. I am so very grateful she and Sally accepted me as their step-sister. They are the wonderful present I got from the marriage between </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">my nutsy father and </span>their nutsy mother.<br /><br />At 7 PM, Sally comes to get us. It is hard not crying. Why am I such a mess? When they drop me off, I can’t watch Sally’s car drive away so I head quickly into the Queen’s International Airport, which is new and snazzy. It is 7:30 PM. I see a sign for Turkish Airlines <i>business</i> class travelers, but no line for <i>tourist</i> class. I ask the uniformed woman behind the counter, “Can you tell me where to go for the cheap seats?” <br /><br />“Is it just you?” she asks. “Come here, I’ll take care of you.” <br /><br />Next, I go to Security, where the agents are joking around. Very different from Atlanta, where the agents look stern and business-like. I hope this gang are paying attention. A young couple with creamed coffee complexions are standing at the receiving end of the conveyor belt. Mom holds a stuffed baby bag in her left hand and their sleeping baby in a car seat in her right while Dad struggles with a stroller and chair. I say, “You’ve got to be strong.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a strong accent he says, “No, this is light,” and we smile all over the place at each other.<br /><br />At 8:30 I’m done with all the rigamarole and shop for a book to read. They finally post my flight’s gate. At the gate there is plenty of room plus an outlet for my laptop. I can check my email! An unsure, elderly woman chats a bit after I reassure her that she is in the right place. “I get so scared when I have to fly,” she says. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actually, I think most of us older travelers deal with
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />When I board the plane, who do I see in the seats next to mine? The family I spoke with in Security! “I am following you,” I say. We all laugh and rejoice in the cutest baby I’ve seen for years. Maybe 6-8 months old? Curly black hair with a light caramel complexion and a big teething smile. Mom and Dad sing to him. “Persian poems,” he says. His wife also sings “Twinkle, Twinkle” in English. They are on their way to see her father in Iran. <br /><br />Other passengers pass by my seat, which is the front row of economy class. As she passes, the scared elderly woman and I smile and wish each other well. Many others smile back at me. We’re a friendly bunch this trip.<br /><br />Turkish Airlines to Istanbul leaves Heathrow at 10:30 PM. The plane is only half full. <i>(The second bomb attack in Istanbul drastically reduced the number of tourists, I learn later.)</i> I take advantage of empty rows by moving one row back after dinner. I sleep about an hour on my back with my knees bent. The young family gladly spreads out their baby stuff over my old seat. We land at 2 AM Brit time, which is 4 AM Turkey time. Back into the bazaar-like Ataturk Airport. <br /><br />After a welcome stop in a beautiful bathroom, I stand still on the edge of the huge crowd sorting out where to go. With a ten hour layover, I would like to find a lounge I am eligible to use. Before I left Georgia I tried learning whether there was a lounge for peons (not first class passengers) but was frustrated by language barriers. The airport web site did state there is an information office someplace in here. But first I have to go through Security again and Passport Check. Several male officials stand around but each one is frowning. I am sure they are scrutinizing all of us as potential trouble-makers, for which I am grateful, but I am afraid to ask them where the information booth is. <br /><br />Finally I see a welcome sign peeking up above all the quickly traveling, noisy people walking in front of me. The gentleman behind the glass speaks some English. “There are two lounges. One above food court. One below.” <br /><br />“Which one is better?” I ask. He begins to frown; I suspect he is not permitted to make recommendations. “Well, if you were me, would you walk up or down?” “I walk down,” he says. I smile with gratitude. <br /><br />The whole place is colorful, loud, bustling: chaotic. As I take the escalator down, I see squads of Korean travelers, their leaders holding up signs, shouting directions. I crave some quiet.<br /><br />For 60 euros I can sit in a semi-quiet lounge in a comfortable chair, use wi-fi, eat breakfast, read my book, and maybe sleep. <br /><br />Although we had a nice little dinner on the plane, I have a good appetite for... what? Gosh, some sort of creamy vegetable soup with a delicate, exotic flavor. Then an eggroll-looking thing with something dark inside; tasty. Then scrambled eggs, a big chunk of parsley and three kinds of cheese, dark cherry juice and a delicious latte out of a presto! machine. They also have Turkish coffee and 17 other things to eat or drink. I love Turkish coffee but want to sleep, if possible, sometime before my plane leaves.<br /><br />Looking around the multi-roomed lounge: we are an international group with many face colors, languages and outfits. Only one woman wears a hijab; one wears a head scarf. Two young women wear very short shorts. I don’t recall seeing teensy shorts in any U.S. or British airports. It seems insensitive to me but perhaps they are Turkish and making some sort of statement? There is so much I do not know but I am too tired to contemplate or study. I curl into a pretzel and doze for about 45 minutes.<br /><br />Finally at 12:15, a scrolling sign in the lounge says I should go to my gate. There I go through another type of security: talking with an agent about where I have been and where I am going and whether anyone had my suitcase before it was put in the plane from Heathrow. After that, I wait in yet another line. A woman behind a metal screen takes my boarding card and passport and does something I cannot see with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I have to present my passport and boarding card to yet another agent who tells me to have a seat. He tells a bunch of other people to get in line for a physical check of their carry-on bags and a pat-down. I can see no visible reason why some of us get to skip that part. Maybe he makes the selection numerically. It’s not by sex, age, skin color, apparent ethnicity. Even a woman pilot has to get in that long-winded line. <br /><br />Now it is 12:45. The plane will leave at 14:05 (2:05 PM) if it is on time. I am too tired to write and have been running on fumes for most of this airplane adventure so my camera has remained in my backpack. <br /><br />I am amazed at myself for creating such a stupid way to travel to and from England — stunned that I did not realize how much longer going all the way East to Istanbul would make the trip. I promise to have someone <i>without</i> brain damage approve my plans before I finalize plane reservations in the future. Altogether I spend 34 hours getting home.<br /><br />Here is part of what I write to Judy the next morning:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">… I sure do also wish we lived closer. It is a happy thought that we will try to meet in Montreal or Toronto…</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I arrived in the Groome (shuttle) parking lot in Athens at almost 10 PM after 34 1/2 hours of travel. Toni took me home, which was very good cause I was practically incoherent and my knees weren't working so well after all that sitting. I went to bed right away but woke up in the middle of the night with huge leg cramps. Feather helped me wake up this morning at 6:30…</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Hot and humid with allergy and UV alerts but not as hot as it has been. It might rain Friday. Toni said she used up all the water in the rain barrels (3,000 gallons) trying to keep things alive. No wonder all my friends were enamored of the Lake District photos, enjoying the lushness of rain.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I am sitting here drinking the first of many glasses of water while my internet radio is set for BBC 3…</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I need to write Susan (the friend who has been lighting candles for my safe return) that I'm home. Love and more love. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />*****<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">It takes me a full month to recover from this trip. My neurologist tells me this is to be expected based upon “your concussion history.” Saving $260 on the airplane ticket by flying to London via Istanbul was so incredibly stupid it’s funny. Apparently even though I am now 75 years old, I still need to learn by making mistakes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-42784422894812242332016-10-28T07:43:00.004-07:002016-10-28T07:43:52.457-07:00LEAVING THE LAKE DISTRICT<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: blue;">One of the reasons I am writing this blog is to help me remember what I did and thought this year. Since my memory is impaired from concussions and hemiplegic migraines, I find that I need these reminders. I am posting this report on leaving the Lake District about seven weeks after it happened but I took notes <i>while </i>it was going on. </span></span></span><br />
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 LEAVING THE LAKE DISTRICT</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wake up half hour before my 7 AM alarm. Neal is both waiter and cook. As owner of the Rosegarth Guest House, he’s closing the place for a couple of days so he can go on a hiking holiday himself. <br /><br />I have a lovely conversation with a couple from Cambridgeshire who say I should visit York on my next trip. And chat with Neal’s friend, who is an ecologist. She’s been living near Keswick but hopes to return to Grange, where she’d lived for many years in a farmhouse. Remember Grange? That’s where Sally and I started the “Where-Are-We-Hike.” http://rosemaryadventures.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-where-are-we-hike.html <br /><br />Anyway, back to Neal’s ecologist friend. Now that her kids are in “Uni” she can move away from the city. She’s a serious walker and currently wants to live near the fells trails. But she’s thinking that in ten years or so she may have to return to a city because her knees are going bad. I reflect on my own knees. My right knee acts up after five miles and is terrible at bending to weed. One of these days…<br /><br />I ask Neal about paying him more than my lodging debt on the credit card because I don’t have cash for tips (no ATM in Ravenglass, remember?). “Oh no, dear, we don’t have that here. It’s always an adjustment when I go to the States and have to remember tip money.” He helps me down the steps with my fairly light suitcase. I wonder whether Neal will be successful in selling the place. He bought it with his wife but she passed away. It must be a burden running it by himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have another chat with Rog (pronounced with a soft “g”) and Bev, as I wait for the train to Carlisle. It’s in the 60’s, gray, and very windy so I am glad I have a turtleneck and raincoat. They are in short-sleeved shirts. Bev’s favorite place is Provincetown, Massachusetts. I say my surrogate son Hoi Pang and my new son-in-law Gerry, took me to P-town a few years ago. She says they were there on a 4th of July one year. She ordered an outfit from e-Bay and went downtown as the Statue of Liberty, telling people it was her birthday. They just loved that Bev was from England. <br /><br />They both give me hugs and European kisses which I never do right. Rog advises me to sit on the <i>left</i> side of the train facing forward. “After the nuclear plant, look on the left. You’ll see little houses right next to the ocean.” They are off the grid so must produce their own electricity. <br /><br />The rain starts ever so slightly as I board the train and stow my suitcase. When I take my left-handed seat and look out the window, Rog is waving goodbye but he’s got a six foot tall cardboard statue of the Queen in his hands, waving it back and forth. Sure wish I had a photo of that. Imagine having Queen Elizabeth wave goodbye to you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have mixed feelings leaving the Lake District. It is so very beautiful and there are so many places I have not yet seen. But I will see my beloved sister, Judy, tonight and Sally soon after. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> From Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling, page 331: he describes how the Lake District receives 16 million visitors per year. <i>“All these people are packed into an area of exceedingly modest dimension. The Lake District National Park is only thirty-nine miles long from top to bottom and thirty-three miles across at its widest point. Put another way, the Lake District gets four times as many visitors as Yellowstone National Park … in an area just a quarter the size. … And yet it handles it remarkably well on the whole. Most of the crowds go to just a few places — Ambleside, Grasmere, and Bowness primarily. If you walk just a couple of hundred yards up any path you can easily get a whole hillside to yourself.” </i> I certainly found that to be true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a slow train from Ravenglass to Carlisle. With a dirty window. Every little stop is made. St. Bees, which I could walk to along the Irish Sea from Drigg, looks like a pretty little town. I see beautiful green fields with sheep but two-thirds of the journey from 10:55-12:38 is by the coast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The scenery is diverse between Parton and Flimby. I take scads of photos because I know it will be a long time before I return. If ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I especially enjoy the green meadows and sheep near Maryport. A quilter could design a beautiful agricultural quilt based on the lines this farmer created.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I check my schedule. And then check it again. And then again. Probably twelve times because I cannot keep it in my head when we will get to Carlisle (12:38) vs when the next train (to London Euston) leaves (12:49). I ask the conductor if eleven minutes is enough time and how do I get to the correct platform. She says, “You will arrive on Platform 3; your next trail will leave from platform 4. Walk across the tracks on a bridge.” Surely I can do all that in eleven minutes!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />I put on my raincoat and retrieve my suitcase, standing near the door with several others who are anxious to move quickly. <br /><br />Announcement from the engineer: “I apologize because we are arriving ten minutes late. We are arriving on Platform 2 because they are putting up scaffolding on Platform 3. My heart begins beating faster. How can I get across all the tracks in ONE minute?! I begin to worry. How can I contact Judy if I miss the train and arrive late in Twickenham? <br /><br />When the doors open I look quickly left and then right, hoping that the people running with their suitcases are going to the bridge across the tracks because I don’t want to take time to ask anyone. When they trot to the left, I do too. Then we sort of <b>run with our suitcases up a hill</b> leading at right angles to yet another hill which crosses the tracks. After I walk quickly down to the platform I am almost faint and slightly nauseous. But I might have made it. A mother with her little girl assures me I am standing in the correct place for the London Euston train, which shows itself one minute later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a more modern train than others I am now familiar with. I find a good place for my suitcase and then sit not far from it. Six rowdy-sounding young men are telling apparently funny stories cause they are braying like donkeys. I can’t understand much of what they say, not because I can’t hear it (because it’s very loud) but I can’t understand their version of English. Only word I got reliably was the adjective “fuckin.” Fortunately they left the train at Preston. Before that, though I see a bit of the Lake District hillside as we drive over some of the area I had seen getting from Windermere to Ravenglass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Two minutes before exiting, I grab my suitcase which has migrated to the top of the heap and ask, “Does anyone know how to get to the tube for Vauxhall? A slender man with a pleasant face says, “Yes. I’m going there also so I can take you there.” The Universe has provided an angel. London Euston train station is very large and busy. This kind man enables me to walk briskly instead of reading a million signs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Can I help you with that?” he asks about carrying my suitcase up 17 steps. “No, I can make it, but thank you.” But later, for the second set of 30 steps I allow him to carry it. <br /><br />“Follow those people to the left. To the right. Down those steps.” Fortunately as we go deeper and deeper an escalator carries us and my suitcase. I hope my almost-worn-out ticket will work in the tube machine. It does. My angel has a place here and one up in the lake district (Penrith) because of work. He may have to decide whether to live in London with its polluted air, wonderful friends and culture or live in the beauty of the lake district. Hmmm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After riding on the tube we exit at Vauxhall and look for the train which will take him to Putney and me to Twickenham. Thanks to this kind gentleman, I arrive early so Judy does not have to wait long in the Twickenham car park. It is so wonderful to see her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A marvelous dinner, shower, and I am ready for bed. Tomorrow I don’t have to travel anywhere!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-55016110421268559672016-10-11T19:27:00.000-07:002016-10-11T19:27:21.635-07:00SNAILS ON SAND<h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday September 8</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I come down for breakfast I see nearly white sneakers! I had expected dry ones, not clean ones! I am prepared to give a tip to the person who had done all that extra work, but Neal (the B&B owner) says he did the job himself. I can’t thank him enough. <br /><br />I ask him, “I’d like to go north of Ravenglass to see the Irish Sea and the big sand dunes. Which way should I walk?” <br /><br />“It will be faster and safer if you take the train to the next stop of Drigg, then head toward the ocean,” recommends Neal. So that’s what I do, following these directions from a flyer he gives me:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Drigg, take the beach road to the level crossing over the railway, past the station and continue on to the beach. The road down to the sand dunes is a long circuitous lane bordering the nuclear waste repository, protected by lines of high fencing, but these are soon left behind as the beach draws near and the scale of the dunes becomes apparent. This is the largest sand dune system in Cumbria supporting species such as sea holly, sea bindweed and blue fleabane. The dunes and the estuary of Eskmeals and Ravenglass also support one of the largest seabird breeding colonies in the northwest. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wait! Nuclear waste repository?</b> It is raining so hard my photos of the sign are soggy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I learn later from the internet: During WW2 a Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF Drigg) was established at Drigg between the railway line and the sea. This is now the site of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority low-level radioactive waste repository. The site is 270 acres, holding about one million cubic meters of radioactive waste, approximately 3.7 mi south east of the Sellafield nuclear site. The site stores waste from Sellafield, Ministry of Defense sites, nuclear power stations, hospitals, universities, medical companies and the oil industry. It has been operating since 1959.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And this is what I learn later from Bill Bryson’s book, <i>The Road to Little Dribbling</i>, on page 324-326.<br /><br />“…at Calder Hall at Sellafield, on the Cumbrian coast, it [Britain] had installed the world’s very first working nuclear power station.”<br /><br />In 1944, as WWII was winding down, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt signed an agreement pledging to share information on the development of nuclear weaponry and energy after the war. But after Roosevelt died, Congress (two years later) passed the McMahon Act, making it a crime punishable by death to give any information on nuclear reactions. So Britain had to develop its nuclear industry and hydrogen bombs on its own.<br /><br />By early 1957 Britain was on top of the world but in October, the Sellafield reactor overheated. Nobody knew what to do. They thought of hosing the core down but they thought possibly the water would cause a massive detonation. There was talk of evacuating the Lake District. Fortunately there was not a nuclear explosion but their P.R. was hurt badly.<br /><br />“There is still a lot of other toxic stuff at Sellafield, including the world’s largest stockpile of plutonium (28 tons of it), but nobody knows exactly what is lying around the place because record keeping was so poor.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Very sturdy fencing surrounds the area with many signs urging me to keep away. No problem there.<br /><br />A farm is directly opposite the the repository. If I knew the area better, I could cut across the meadow like a real British Rambler. Unlike the U.S., walkers are permitted to walk across private land.</span></span><br />
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dunes are huge and covered with grass. I think the tussocks are marram
grass. A wicked wind blows the walk directions out of my hand but in
short order the pool deepens where it landed. Since I leave tomorrow, I do not want to
soak my newly dried sneakers. I leave the directions there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> While I watch the horizon, I see flares or rockets in the distance. [Eileen and Richard later do some research to find what that is about. Turns out they are flares from the Eskmaels firing range.] It reminds me of the gorgeous fighter plane we saw speeding loudly over us in Windermere as we ate lunch by the lake. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thoughts of military necessities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have I ever walked on sand this brown? Because it is raining and very windy, I am walking by myself for a long time. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span> Finally a couple with dogs and a solitary walker join me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The wind is incredible. There are some very beautiful stones on the beach which a geologist could enjoy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I love the dunes, which are huge and have snails on them! I find two wildflowers which are new to me.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Possibly Portland spurge, <i>Euphorbia portlandica</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-91673017014461195892016-10-02T16:21:00.000-07:002016-10-02T16:21:05.830-07:00WHERE I DON'T GET LOST<h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yesterday I saw no stores — anywhere! So when I see a delivery van park out front I wonder, “Is this how they get their food?” I forget to ask because I get involved discussing my wet, muddy sneakers. (Rosegarth Guest House offers drying shoes as a service). “Sure, just bring them down. We’ll stuff them with paper and put them in the drying room.” Although bringing a second pair of hiking shoes added weight to my suitcase, I sure am glad to have them.<br /><br />At the ticket counter I pick up a brochure about three walks from Dalegarth Station and Boot. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Many volunteers operate “The Little Ratty.” They are very safety-conscious, checking to be sure all four of us hikers are on board. We travel from Ravenglass north to Eskdale on a three-foot gauge railway originally built when there were mines to tend. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here is a four-minute movie I made about the train trip: <a href="https://youtu.be/YKrnpCRJYIc" target="_blank">Sheep on the Track</a></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I am reading a most wonderful book. <i>The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District</i>, is an autobiographical book by James Rebanks, a sheep farmer from Matterdale, Cumbria. I come to understand how the ancient (back to the Vikings) ways of improving land for sheep make the hillsides so beautiful in this 800 square mile Lake District. Unlike the Grand Canyon of the United States, which was formed by geological forces and pretty much left untouched by people, this landscape is very human and beautifully green. As a tourist, I enjoy the hillsides and cutie-pie sheep without the very hard work needed to make all that beauty. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ferns, lichens, and mosses are all over, but especially next to stream beds. This spooky-looking lichen has witch-like fingers sticking up. [My naturalist friend and lichen photographer, Don Hunter, says it is called Cladonia polydactyla. Get it?] </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> The walk pamphlet guides me to St. Catherine’s Church. “Do pop in, the church is always open.” It is <i>not</i>. Judging by their sign, they are undergoing leadership changes.</span></span></h4>
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but steadily on the path is a woman in her 80’s. She lives in
Manchester and comes here every year to walk and enjoy the peace. Her
son, who lives in the countryside, meets her here because he dislikes
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As I walk toward Dalegarth Station I wonder why I’ve seen so few butterflies on this trip. And magically, there is one amidst some blackberry vines. And a beauty it is — a new one to me.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The same two sheep we saw coming up need to be whistled off the track as we return. (In case you didn’t watch the movie earlier, click here: <a href="https://youtu.be/YKrnpCRJYIc" target="_blank">Sheep on the Track</a>)</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I select the heartiest breakfast at my </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rosegarth </span>B&B. I’ll be going on a five mile walk by myself and need to be strong. Marmite is available, but I pass it by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It is low tide when I walk out the front door. Turning left, I walk through the town of Ravenglass, where there is no ATM, no store. Where do people go to buy food?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the town’s two blocks of houses, the estuary appears again. The walk description says, <b><i>“Continue across the tidal flats, following the shore line for one mile.”</i></b> The sand is wet. I see a few other people off to the left. Are they going on the same walk? How long is a mile? I attempt to follow these people but they all sit down for a snack. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There are some pretty flowers and colorful lichens in the brush. And a bench for the “twitchers.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Eventually the path swings to the left and then passes under a railway bridge."</i></b>
Is this a railway bridge? Nope. I think it’s some other kind of
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where did that couple come from? They are really walking fast! I will follow them; perhaps they are going on the same walk. These are tidal flats; every step is a wet one. A broken stone wall shows me how they are built in two side-by-side layers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then ahead I see what might be the railroad bridge. Has it been a mile? As I photograph the aster, the couple disappears. Now I become a tracker, looking for where they might have gone. I see some flattened brush and go that way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a gate. That is a good sign. Nice ferns live under the bridge. On the other side are more tidal flats along the River Esk. Is that the couple up there? </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are those two little dots the couple I am following?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Twitchers" would love this area.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Masses of birds are on the sand. More flowers are in the brush. The sand is turning to mud. Where the heck is the path? Grasses are deep and tall. I’ve lost the couple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Keep left at the T-jcn just beyond, then turn right soon after.”</i></b> I have seen no T-junction. It doesn’t matter how many times I read these directions, I can’t figure out what to do. I see it on the map, but don’t know where I am. I will have to continue being a tracker. Thanks to the mud, it’s possible. My feet follow the muddy, hopefully well-used path following a beautifully constructed wall. Maybe the next gate is part of that wall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“A gate leads to a field where the path is not clear on the ground, but head straight up to a gate in the top wall.”</i></b> Two gates are mentioned. Hope this is the second gate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of invasive bracken fern here. But then, how wonderful to see a sign! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>“Take the public footpath opposite the buildings, signed to Muncastle Church and Castle. This climbs through a plantation, then crosses a stile. Slant up leftwards across the next large field.”</b></i> Where is a stile?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is this where I am? I can’t walk through those (gorse?) bushes but there may be a trail on the left. And then cross the hill, I guess. This might be Newtown Farm. Lots of cows there. Is that large brown guy a bull? Hmmm, think I’ll move by quickly. There is a gate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>“The path is not clear on the ground. Reach a gate in the top wall, situated in a saddle between 2 hills on a ridge top.”</b></i> Saddle? Ridge?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I follow the roadway but have trouble with the really big mud swamp. I am so glad I learned how to treat stinging nettle in Ireland because I can’t avoid walking on it. I learned to wipe my skin with dock, a plant which usually grows nearby. A grouse runs around me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> How wonderful to see a sign! Wherever I may have been, I now know I am somewhere! I walk through an abandoned meadow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here, finally, is a stile. But is that the missing
stile way back in the earlier directions? Who the hell knows! Am I
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<span style="font-size: large;">Way in the distance I see a proper farm road. And sheep. And then a yellow arrow. And another stile. Good grief! Will this walk never end? I think I exceeded the five mile walk already and am not at Muncaster Castle. Don’t panic; just plod along. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally I get to the castle grounds, which are quite extensive. I pay a lower fee to walk on the grounds (only). I do not have the energy to walk through the castle proper. [I later learn my friend Sally has family who lived in that castle generations ago.] I admire the Muncaster insect-home construction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Folks who live in the castle have a beautiful view of the hillside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I head back to Ravenglass, enjoying beautiful flowers which are probably natives, judging from the large number of pollinators on them. If I had more energy I would take the long route back to see remnants of the Roman bath. I don’t. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After I take off my wet, muddy shoes and stretch out for awhile, I wander outside to enjoy the slant of the late afternoon sun. Tide is out again. Boats and birds are scattered on the tidal flats. I am in love with the light and take pictures for an hour as the sun sinks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow I will take the little train up into the fells.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If you would like to comment, especially with any botanical corrections, please do so below or write me at rwoodel.woodel@gmail.com.</span></span></span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-85937366124128612202016-09-18T17:29:00.001-07:002016-09-19T04:33:26.887-07:00ANOTHER VIEW<h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Judy and Sally drop me off at the Windermere train station after we say heartfelt thank you’s to Eileen and Richard. Here is my four-train itinerary just to get from one town in the Lake District to another.<br /><br />Train leaves Windermere at 9:47, arriving at Oxenholme Lake at 10:06. I meet two Australians traveling to Wales, having already hiked in the Lake District. When we exit, they wait for a train across the tracks going in the opposite direction. I have six minutes to cross the tracks to get on the second train, going on to Lancaster. Tension! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 35 minute wait in Lancaster for the third train means I can “hit the head” and compose myself. A station agent mutters because the train is three minutes late. “I can’t imagine why it’s running late.” I try to reassure him as the train arrives at 11:05. <br /><br />On the Barrow In Furness train, I ask the conductor what “Furness” is. She stares at me, looking perplexed, and says, “I’m sure I don’t know. I’ll have to ask about that.” [Wiki Eng tells me it is a peninsula and region in south Cumbria. Low Furness is the peninsula which juts out into the Irish Sea.] </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Oh my goodness! There is an ice-cream facility on the first floor, right above my room. “All our ice-cream is made from fresh Cumbrian cow’s milk and cream.” I’ve died and gone to heaven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My room is tidy with a view right onto the water. I found out about this place from my insurance agent, whose father comes here every Spring. He recommended Room 3, which is what I asked for. I’m happy with the shower also. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a gray day. After I unpack I take a walk to orient myself to the new place. The sign says “Rome 1127” miles. Rome, Italy? The Romans were in this area. Remains of a Roman bath house established in AD 130 are nearby. I find a nifty spider under a nearby porch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> So nice to see wildflowers close to where I am living.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A man is sleeping on a bench in the weeds near the boggy area. I hope he isn’t homeless. I cross over to see a bit of the farm, then head back, enjoying the little town of Ravenglass from the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I return “home” I find a small family turning over rocks to find hiding crabs and a couple looking for new birds. Bird-watchers in England are called “twitchers.” They sit out there mornings and dusk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">If you would like to comment on this blog, please do so below if you can. Otherwise, I'd love hearing from you at rwoodel.woodel@gmail.com.</span></span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-59767950264920653112016-09-10T12:51:00.001-07:002016-10-18T10:24:31.421-07:00DOUBLE-HEADER ADVENTURES<h4>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SUNDAY September 4</b></span></h4>
<b><br /></b><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;">Adventure One.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Judy, Sally and I head off to Orrest Head. Here is what a walk-reviewer says: “...the thought of ascents that can be done in carpet slippers gets more appealing as the years stumble on. AW [Wainwright, the fells-walking guru] listed all manner of reasons why people may turn to lesser hills -- half a century of pipe-smoking, brittle bones, unsympathetic families, senile decay, sexual over-indulgence. As he said, though, ‘Rigor mortis is the one great disability to fear, and avoid as long as possible.’”<br /><br />Judy is anxious to go on a walk you can do in your bedroom slippers. But in real life, especially for the last bit ascending the hill, you could end up with stubbed toes and twisted ankles. Maybe it would be worth it because the flowers are pretty and the views are marvelous. Because it is a hill rather than a mountain and because the trail head is practically in downtown Windermere, it is not <i>exactly</i> crowded, but... Sort of like walking the Panther Creek trail on a Saturday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a bunch of photos for you to take the walk with us. But the top photo is here ONLY for my friend, Kathy. (Isn't this a neat kayak, Kathy?) This store was opposite the trailhead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This stone has a prayer carved on it: "Thou, who hast given me eyes to see and love this sight so fair, Give me a heart to find out Thee and read Thee everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After huffing and puffing and clambering over very large rocks, we reach the top, which is glorious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before we walk “home” we stop at the train station so I can buy a ticket to Ravenglass. I love this dog and his collar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sally and Judy will head back to Twickenham Monday. It would take an hour for Sally to drive me to Ravenglass and another hour to get back to the highway for London. But for only $45 I can get a marvelous train adventure!<br /><br />The railroad ticket-seller, staring intently, asks me, “Why do you want to go to Ravenglass?” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hunh? What does he mean by that? Why should I, in particular, be interested in that part of the world? Why would I want to leave beautiful Windermere? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, “How long do you think it will take you by train?” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I tell him it will take three hours, he nods his head and smiles, “So we’re on the same page.” He’s been sadly disappointed by people who say they want the ticket, but then refuse to pay for it after they read that four trains are involved in a three hour trip. He can’t bear that heartbreak again apparently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After returning home to spruce up a bit, Sally drives us to Hill Top, the home of Beatrix Potter. Before my trip Toni and I watched a lovely movie about her early life as a children’s author. If you haven’t yet seen this gentle movie, press here for a hint: <a href="https://youtu.be/oMDMD7q101I" target="_blank">Miss Potter Movie Trailer</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Actually, though, amongst the people of the Lake District, she is better known as a conservationist and lover of the land. Along with her husband, William Heelis, she bought farms and land which she then left to the National Trust. She specifically is respected for “bringing new life to the now famous Herdwick sheep breed and supporting traditional farming methods.”<br /><br />But first, we take the Windermere ferry across the lake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Herdwick sheep are nearby, as well as another brand. The Herdwicks have white faces and are especially hearty for living in the high fells where it snows in the winter and is rough and rocky all the time. They all seem to be smiling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are surprised at how many Japanese visitors are making a pilgrimage here. Judy is told that they learn English in school by reading Potter books. <br /><br />A volunteer points out how many parts of the house are drawn in her books. After she marries, however, Beatrix and her tall husband find it more comfortable living in the larger yellow house across the street. She maintained this house, though, as her work area. Ceilings are low and the windows are small; I squint a lot. I love the bits of her letters which they’ve scattered here and there ... <b>especially one. If you are over 70 years old, you will know which one I mean.</b></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After our pilgrimage, we have an early dinner at nearby Cuckoo Brow Inn. Dogs, of course, are allowed. I just love that about the English countryside. I follow the strange sign to “Stables, games, and toilets” then return to a difficult choice about dessert after our roast lamb.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We drive up to Hawkshead, which Sally remembers from years ago. I have yet more icecream. The little stores up there are so specialized. One sells ONLY relish. Another offers 30 kinds of cheese but sells other things. I buy an icecream scooper there for Richard, who was using a tablespoon, for goodness sake! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we return, we enjoy three very large Maine coon cats that live with Eileen and Richard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I go to bed early because I have a big day of transportation tomorrow. Unfortunately, I miss seeing the badger who comes by about 10:00 PM. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If you want to tell me which of Beatrix Potter's notes <i>you</i> like the most, please write it in the comments below or send me an e-mail at rwoodel.woodel@gmail.com.</span> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-62147843958290355272016-09-07T14:37:00.000-07:002016-09-07T14:37:19.200-07:00A WHERE-ARE-WE HIKE<h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2: Mostly Pictures</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Guardian a month ago was an article called “<i>Ten of the best walks in the Lake District</i>.” Number one is Borger Dair, Borrowdale. Famed fellwalker Alfred Wainwright wrote that Borger Dair is the “<i>finest square mile in Lakeland</i>” where we can climb Castle Crag, the site of a hill fort some 2,000 years ago. Although small in stature, it “<i>offers some of the finest views you will ever see</i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Further, it reads: "<i>Take a moment to pause at Peace How, a small summit bought for the benefit of the nation in 1917 as a place where soldiers returning from the front line could find some tranquility</i>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I download specific descriptions and a map from the National Trust, it says the walk is moderate in difficulty, about four miles long, will take three hours, is dog friendly, and begins in Grange.<br /><br />Driving to Grange means going through Grasmere, Great How, Naddle, Dale Bottom, Dale Head and Legbarthwaite. Love those names!<br /><br />If it weren’t for a woman who happened to be near the old church, we would never know we were in Grange. “We are looking for Maggie’s Bridge.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Well, dear, I’ve been living here for 66 years and never heard of that. Let me see your paper. Hmmm. They call it a geology walk. Never heard of that either, dear.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She says we should go <i>that</i> way toward the cafe and then do something or other at a sign about eggs for sale. At the cafe a guy in tall boots says we should pass the egg sign. When he reads my Georgia hat he asks, "Have you walked the A.T.?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well small bits," I answer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally we seem to be on the trail but never find Peace How. We do see a bright red phone booth near a hotel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Several large black slugs are hanging about. And a purple flower I later find out about from a Irish Wildflower FB posting: Devil's-bit Scabious / Succisa pratensis. It is also the sole foodplant of the Marsh Fritillary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are trying so very hard to follow the directions but have run amuck in short order. We meet a couple with an ordnance map who tells us to turn around and then turn right. Eileen left us an ordnance map but it was supposed to rain and I did not have a plastic holder to put it in.<br /><br />We go to a farm, passing through it. Now where are we supposed to turn right? Should we double back? Maybe not yet. Oh, there it is!<br /><br />To cross the beck, Sally crosses a narrow bridge like the type I’ve seen in the Smokies.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We pass a bit of woods on our way to Dalt Quarry, then a ferny path. A very shiny rock almost glows on the path. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<i>Turning away from the Quarry, take the smaller track to the right. This joins a larger track near a small bridge. Ascend the larger track, shortly leaving the wood and climbing by the stream of Broadslack Gill. Further up, below the steep crags on the left, a smaller but still clear path branches to the left. Take a breather and a moment to listen to your surroundings</i>.” HA HA! We are standing there breathing heavily, barely able to hear the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “<i>If time, weather and inclination permit, the short steep climb to the summit of Castle Crag is recommended. Ascend steeply to a ladder and stile. </i> [Where is that?] <i>Cross these and follow the fence to another ladder site. </i> [Is that the other ladder?] <i>Turn left and keep going up. Now comes the juicy bit. Go up the spoil heaps on a path that is not as hard as it looks. A great view awaits you at the top</i>.”<br /><br />OK then, which ladder? Which stile? Not that one. This one? Here are some people who might know something. We have to go back? Then what? “Follow us.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Yikes! The pathway up looks very scary. If necessary, we will come down on our butts. This woman did not want to go up. Her husband runs down like a mountain goat. Show off! This loose shale is what we are supposed to walk on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now it is time to descend. We climb down standing on our feet as small children about six years old come up with their parents. We can’t come down on our butts while young people are watching us. But we are very proud of ourselves. Can’t have courage without fear, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And look what’s up here with us!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “<i>Carefully reverse the route of ascent to the lower ladder stile. </i> [Which lower one?] <i>Cross this and follow a grassy track.</i>” This is grassy, but soggy. Is this it? None of the remaining directions seems to describe where we are but we do not know which way to go. When my sneakers are one inch in mud I realize this is a bog and see a cottony plant I remember from Ireland! <span style="background-color: yellow;">And a bog orchid. </span>Whoopee, it is worth getting lost! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We head toward a very stony path and see a biker. A biker on THIS?!. We turn onto that path and see two other women hikers. They are from Denmark and have an ordnance map. They tell us we are going in the wrong direction to get back to Grange. Bless them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The supposed three hour walk takes us five, from 10:15 AM - 3:15 PM. Getting “lost” about 15 times apparently takes two hours.<br /><br />We are starving so we head for Keswick. At Jennings Pub I have the most marvelous lamb dish I ever have had: Lakeland Lamb and Mint Pie. Main Street is pedestrian-</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">only.</span> Naturally, we have gelato for dessert. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> One of the charity statues honors Herdwick Sheep, the very best breed to live on the fells.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we return “home.” Eileen and Richard take us to a beautiful view to end our evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">If you would like to make comments, you may write them below or email me at rwoodel.woodel@gmail.com. I just love knowing you are enjoying this vicarious hike.</span> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-49744524198243124402016-09-06T03:04:00.001-07:002016-09-06T03:04:42.409-07:00CATS EYES REMOVED and other new signs and words<h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">TUESDAY AUGUST 30</span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">We drive North toward the Lake District mostly on main roads. “Don’t you dare pass that truck until I get my camera,” I say loudly and with excitement to Sally. Fortunately she laughs. A PIEROGI truck! Poles and Ukrainians love that stuff. I grew up on pierogi!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next to the numerous road works are signs saying “Free Recovery. Await Rescue.” In the bathroom at a large, and quite nice, highway stop is a sign asking for toilet twins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We arrive in the beautiful Lake District with relief. In Kendal, some colorful locals direct us toward the restaurant. A truck promises I can have my cake and drink it. We walk past Blind Beck. A “beck” is a stream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After a mighty fine spiced lamb and apricot tagine, we head to our home-away-from-home in Windermere. Judy’s friends, Eileen and Richard, will return from their travels Friday but meanwhile we are enjoying their three large Maine coon cats, beautiful home and outstanding landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> WEDNESDAY</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">We scout out Windermere town center and walk all the way down to the lake where the community is called variously Bonus and Bone Ass, but spelled Bowness. We spend a few hours on the patio of Macdonald Old English Hotel, watching boats and clouds cross over Lake Windermere. I finally eat sticky toffee pudding which I’d seen everywhere in Ireland but learn it was invented up here. Full of dates and spicy flavor and gooey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When we walk “home” we see many painted sheep, including this one in St. Mary’s Church lawn. We’ve got loads of bulldogs in Athens, created by artists and sold for charity. I prefer the sheep. Before dusk I walk by the beck behind "our" house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> THURSDAY SEPT 1</span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">We join a group of international tourists on a Mountain Goat tour. Folks from Israel, Japan, Australia and the United States. Stopping at Grasmere, we see Wordsworth’s old stomping grounds including his burial ground. And stop in at the gingerbread shop owned and baked by the same folks for over 30 years. Jane tells us that only 10% of the Lake District are permanent residents and that over 50% of the economy is based on tourism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see all ten lakes in the Lake District (800 square miles) on this day-long Mountain Goat tour. Jane is a real pro, negotiating skinny mountain roads with barely enough space for oncoming traffic. We see signs such as “Badger Crossing” and “Red Squirrel Crossing.” Red squirrels were almost extinct in the U.K. but thanks to some serious conservation efforts, they are coming back. The red guys are much less assertive than the gray ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fells (mountains) have purple heather on their tops but the bottoms are so very green because there is a great deal of rain. Sometimes nature goes nuts and the floods are highly damaging to waterways, bridges, and houses. Two years ago it was such a mess that some areas are just now being rebuilt. Today we are very lucky because it is mostly sunny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dry stone walls are common. They are centuries old but farmers have learned to repair them when needed. They are actually two walls built back-to-back on top of very large stones which have been laid first in a trench. Several layers of stones are carefully placed strategically upon each other, interspersed with some flat stones which bridge the gap between the two walls, strengthening the finished product. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before a one-hour boat trip on Derwentwater, Jane warns: “Do not get off the boat until you come back to this dock. If you get off I cannot come for you.” Tempting, though, as we see many hikers get off/on to walk the island trails. But we comply and return, especially because it is time for lunch in Keswick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every third <i>person</i> has a dog, which they bring into pubs and just about anywhere else. Every third <i>store</i> is for hikers, boaters, swimmers and every other outdoor sport. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At Surprise View (owned by the National Trust), we avoid the sudden drop-off. Wildflowers are nearby. Microstegia (we’ve got it in Georgia also) is becoming a real pest but worse yet is bracken -- a fern -- which is taking over everything. Jane is unaware of any effort to remove it. Rhododendron can also be a pest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We see lots of hikers walking on cement paths and many even on the actual narrow road. Hair-raising, and it reminds me of my death-defying walk in Letterfrack. Presumably many more hikers are somewhere on the hillsides and woods. Bikers cycle on these same narrow roads with two-way traffic!<br /><span id="goog_1342825336"></span><span id="goog_1342825337"></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just love the sheep. Can’t see enough of them. Jane tells us the Herdwick sheep start off all black, become brown and mixed, and then white as they age but they always have white faces. They are especially hardy for difficult winters up in the snowy, craggy fells. Beatrix Potter was a leading force in preventing them from becoming extinct by buying up working sheep farms for the National Trust. She insisted that the farmers would continue to own their land and take care of the sheep. (There are now about 300 farming families.) <br /><br />Why were the Herwick sheep nearly extinct? Because they normally have only one lamb whereas another type of local sheep have twins. We see sheep on hillsides and along the street, nibbling away. Jane explains that sheep are “hefted” so they can roam free on the fells. Hefting means mother sheep teach their lambs for generations which land is “theirs” so fences are not needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We see yet another lake and a waterfall in an extremely deep valley. Landscape drama is everywhere!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> At Castlerigg (Rigg = ridge) we see a stone circle built by a prehistoric farming community 4,500 years ago. No one knows the meaning of this construction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jane stops to see why cars are parked along the highway looking into a valley. It is a test in preparation for a sheep dog contest. Owners with binoculars are watching their dogs. Some roads are so very narrow that oncoming vehicles have to back up so our van can pass. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Outside Windermere we see an unbelievably grotesque sign: Cats Eyes Removed. Jane explains that there are median indicators on the roads which reflect headlights at night and look like cats’ eyes. In this bit of roadway, they’ve been removed. Still, I can’t stop seeing eye-less cats.<br /><br />Tomorrow Sally and I will go on the Number One hike of the “Ten Best Hikes in the Lake District” so we go to bed early.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope you will post a comment below or, if you are unable to do so, please comment to my email at rwoodel.woodel@gmail. <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">It is so nice hearing from you while I am on the road.</span> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-46916457357065084902016-08-30T11:29:00.001-07:002016-08-30T11:29:42.971-07:00ON THE ROAD AGAIN...I forget the next line of that song<span style="font-size: large;">So I mentioned last time that I bought my ticket to London from Turkish Air before the two bomb attacks, right? When I mentioned to some friends that I had a stop-over in Istanbul Amalia said, “Why don’t you go by way of China?”<br /><br />This is how goofy I am about geography, most of which I learned from traveling: I had no idea that Istanbul was so far to the right (East) of England until I flew there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Things start getting exotic in the International Terminal. Lines at Turkish Air are divided by sex. I get in the “girls” line. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There is one other person in line for security examination. Standing in front of the x-ray machine, one of the TSA agents sees my hiking boots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Are you 75 years old or older?” She asks this to be sure I am entitled to keep my shoes on. When I agree enthusiastically, she asks, “Do you have any implants?” That is the third time I've been asked those two questions back-to-back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">About 9 PM at our gate, three men face Mecca to pray; two of them wear long brown African garb. Some women wear saris, a Sikh gentleman has a white suit like a Nehru jacket, several women are in colorful African dresses and 20 or 30 children run all around. We fill the plane and take off at 10:40 PM. I find the on-board magazine cover enticing (which people?) but am not in the mood to read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> One little girl in front of me played so much with her father <i>before</i> boarding that she sleeps in the plane’s bassinet most of the ten hour trip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A noisy Turkish baby slightly to the left of me sleeps only two hours. He is precisely half the height of his thin, well-toned mother, who carries him up and down the aisle. No fitness club needed for her. <br /><br />My eyes get very dry and I want to be lulled to sleep by a soothing voice. Most flights offer an array of audio books and podcasts. This flight has one offering: the Qur’an. I would listen to it but it is in Turkish only. Fortunately I had downloaded 25 podcasts onto my iPhone. I do watch one entertaining movie [but forget its title and subject matter]. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Altogether I sleep two hours Saturday night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ISTANBUL </span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">I am finally in the airport I have been dreading. I know the chance of another bomb hitting while I am there is extremely slim. But... I did some research on the Ataturk Airport beforehand and was relieved to learn there are eight mosques. So people are praying in droves, which is consoling. The open area is like a noisy bazaar with masses of people talking multitudes of languages, walking quickly every which way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the destinations listed on the departures board: Munich, Baku, Karachi, Entebbe, Budapest, Zagreb, New York, Bishkek, Cairo, Tashkent, Zurich. There is some sort of pilgrimage going on because a great many people are dressed in white robes and there are signs advertising Pilgrim Changing Rooms. It is somewhat intimidating until I eventually locate my own gate. <br /><br />Once I sit down I see the people around me as individuals and unwind. All the little girls racing around wear leggings and most of the women wear both fashionable and dowdy Muslim outfits. One woman wears a burkha with a tiny slit for her eyes, which are covered with sunglasses. But most people are chatting and laughing. It is very cozy. Near me are nine women and one man dressed all in white robes with neon green ribbons around their necks. After 30 minutes a similarly dressed short, round woman enters our area, claps her hands and speaks with authority. All nine women and the man follow her out of our waiting area. But one of those nine gives really big and long hugs to other Muslim women sitting nearby as she speaks quietly in their ears. They all smile. I want a hug, too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are 3 1/2 hours away from Heathrow by air. I watch the names of unfamiliar cities on the screen map of our trip as the little plane heads to the left (West). Goodness! Why did I buy such a meshugena ticket? Amalia was right! It is like making a detour to China. Is this worth saving $250 and getting nicer food? Speaking of food, they serve a full dinner for this 3 1/2 hour flight. In the U.S. I’d get a bag of peanuts and a glass of water. There is a greater choice of audio books but even though I select English as my language the eight Qu’ran selections plus Virginia Woolf are in Turkish.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last bit of sun above the clouds on our way to London</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ENGLAND</span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">My beautiful marvelous sisters are waiting at Heathrow’s Terminal Two for me. It is so wonderful to see them again. Our last time together was April 2015 when we spent a glorious week in Corfu together. Sally drives us to Twickenham where they both live. It is Sunday night, 11:00 PM Brit time. I had only two hours’ sleep Saturday night. I pull out my nightgown from the suitcase and go upstairs in Judy's house to “my” bed and fall asleep. <br /><br />I wake up at 10 AM fully refreshed. We tend to Judy’s sweet cat Minerva, who has been very ill. Judy decides it is time for her to be relieved of her suffering so we go to the after-hours vet because it is a Bank Holiday. It is sad but consoling, thanks to the marvelous woman vet who comprehends how fatally sick Minerva is and how brave Judy is. It was a peaceful ending to sweet Minerva’s life.<br /><br />Afterwards we go to downtown Twickenham. Here’s a funeral business whose name cracks me up every time I see it. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wake and Paine</b> Funeral Directors on Church Street</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few more things I never see at home:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's with the <b>BABY</b> wild salmon? Baby spinach or kale but who could eat a baby fish?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Prices are very high in most of England but the London area is <i>extremely</i> high. One English pound equals about $1.30.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a realtor's ad for a 2 BR, 1 Bath row house for 525,000 pounds</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cost is therefore about $33</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow morning Sally will drive us to Windermere and the Lake District.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am happy to read your comments (below). If this doesn't work for you, please email me at rwoodel.woodel@gmail.com. It is lovely hearing from you when I am away from home.</span></span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-54400618895812735392016-07-12T06:51:00.001-07:002016-07-12T06:51:10.921-07:00BEAM ME UP, SCOTTIE!<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> TRAVELING: FUN?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wish I hadn’t already bought my ticket on Turkish Airlines for my Fall trip to England. <br /><br />I bought it a month before bombs killed 52 people in the airport and injured many more. I just hate my selfishness when, instead of feeling compassion for those poor souls and their families, my first thought was, “Well, it was in the entrance and I’ll be walking in the gate area.”<br /><br />A friend tells me, “I’d be afraid to travel alone like you do.” As if <i>I</i> were not afraid now and then. <br /><br />Recently I came across these figures from the latest US Census: • 57.6% of people 65 and older were married in 2015. • 24.4% of people 65 and older in 2015 were widowed.<br /><br />So, more than 40% of us do not have a spouse to help with travel plans, to carry or keep track of important “stuff” like a suitcase, passport and wallet, to help find the bus station or airport gate. Which is why we have sisters, good friends, and tour groups. Splitting the cost of a room with another person or two is economical. And a traveling buddy can share the panic of possibly missed connections.<br /><br />But traveling by myself can have advantages: I do everything my way and when I make a mistake, I’m the only one to suffer from it. I converse with strangers because there’s nobody else to talk with. The woman in the next bus seat can become a free tour guide ("those are the Twelve Bens mountains"), telling me about her life.<br /><br />Fifty years ago I had a mother-in-law who stopped doing everything she was afraid of. Her life became so small! I promised myself I would never do that. So when I planned my 75th birthday travel extravaganza, I chose to travel by myself. To prove I could do it and to keep my realm of possibilities as open as possible.<br /><br />I love the excitement of being somewhere new: noticing how people live there, enjoying unfamiliar landscapes, eating exotic food. But my body and mind now have limitations which won’t evaporate by doing yet more exercises, eating yet more kale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes the traveling bit is wearying. If only I could be beamed up (where is Scottie when you need him?) to be delivered instantly to the new location. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, it is June 6 and time to start the trek home. I see the last of lovely Rosleague Manor as Andrew drives me to downtown Letterfrack. The bus “station” is a stone wall where eleven of us sit, waiting for the big bus to Galway. The other ten appear to be in their twenties, some with massive backpacks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The big bus arrives on time but we only get to Clifton when the driver stands and says, “I’m stopping here for 30 minutes. You can either be locked in or locked out.” Hunh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I had lots of water and coffee at breakfast, I exit. “Where is there a public toilet?” I ask the driver.<br /><br />“The pub over there welcomes travelers.” Unfortunately, the sign on Mannion’s door says it is closed because of a reserved funeral event inside. At 11:55 the hearse drives by. I find a crowded bakery-cafe across the street. So crowded, they do not notice that I use the restroom and exit without buying anything. What discipline to walk past the scones and sticky toffee!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I join the growing gang of people waiting for the driver to return. Fortunately, he asks previous passengers to enter first. Then, those with reservations. Finally, the huddled masses are allowed to enter, completely filling the bus. After this, as he comes to tiny towns between us and Galway, he accepts only passengers with reservations. Winging it is not always the way to go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Somehow, the driver avoids hitting the sheep on the side of the skinny road. My Irish seat-neighbor thinks the sheep are put out there as lawnmowers. Yikes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My buddy loves the countryside, as do I. We enjoy watching fields and farm machinery go by. Her husband, though, is a city guy. He is a professor of mathematics at Trinity College in Dublin. She tells me about the wonderful time they had for the two years he taught at U.C. Berkley. She loved the weather and looseness about the place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My buddy and I part with a hug when we leave the bus but end up seeing each other in the Galway bus station restroom. The same two stalls are closed for repairs although it has been nine days since I last noticed them.<br /><br />The express bus to Dublin is quite luxurious. It even has a bathroom in it. But the road becomes a typical turnpike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we arrive at the Dublin airport I uncover my first mistake in planning this trip. At home I had googled “Dublin Airport hotels” and selected the cheapest one with a good review about their breakfasts: Airport View Hotel and Secret Spa. Strange name but…<br /><br />I envision a nice place right off the airport grounds where I can take a shower and prepare for the long plane ride tomorrow. Turns out it’s a 20 minute ride by taxi. What the heck? The driver’s son died less than a year ago and he is still grieving. He has a big house outside Dublin so his other two children can live there also. He has no idea why the Airport View Hotel can call itself by that name. “Nothing is out in that God-forsaken area.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We are in a factory district. When I walk inside, nobody is there. I case the place while anger at myself-as-travel-planner rises. When a young woman finally appears she asks for my credit card. “I don’t know whether I want to stay here,” I say. “I haven’t seen the room.” I have never, ever done that before. What would Bill Bryson say? It would be insulting, caustic and hugely funny (to us readers).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We walk along oddly angled hallways like rats in a maze. The carpets are bordello red; photos of cosmetics grace the walls. At the bottom of the steps I ask whether there is an elevator. “No. Do you want me to carry your suitcase?” I let her. I could carry my own suitcase but I don’t want to. <br /><br />“So where can I see the airport?” <br /><br />“What do you mean?” she asks.<br /><br />“The name of this place is the Airport View Hotel. Where <i>is</i> that view?”<br /><br />“Oh, there was a window in one of the rooms where you used to be able to see the airport. But they built a factory next to us so it blocks the view.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve set three alarms for 6:15, 6:30, and 6:45 so I will have time for a leisurely breakfast and still meet the cab at 9:30. But I wake up five times, afraid I’ll oversleep. I surrender at 5 AM, hoping to get my mind in gear for the trip ahead. <br /><br />Sitting on the bed in my nightgown, I watch the morning news on Irish TV. It is like watching a radio show. No one looks at the camera. They read from papers on the desk. No fancy hair-dos, no glamorous outfits. Suddenly I look down and find myself putting toothpaste, instead of skin cream, on my toes. Good Lord!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I wait in the dining room for the cab, I overhear a conversation between the owner and the seasoned assistant who arrives at 8:30. “Sorry I’m late but…” she tells the owner. <br /><br />“Not a problem. I got the new girl to start. She got here at seven. We’re trainin’ her. If she doesn’t do a good job on the rugs, I’ll beat her with the Hoover.” Said in jest.<br /><br />The taxi driver is a hoot. He and the owner (Patrick and Jerry) insist I take a picture of them. He charges 18 Euros to get to the Dublin airport, insisting I take the two Euros change from the 20 Euro bill to buy a snack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The British Airways line is humongous. All of us are wondering what is going on. When I finally get to the front, a stern female agent says, “I don’t see your name on the computer.”<br /><br />I avoid going into shock and say, “With somebody my age, that comment could cause a heart attack.”<br /><br />She apologizes so softly I barely hear her. “Did you find it?” I ask. <br /><br />“Yes, I <i>said</i> I found it, Madam.” If I were Bill Bryson I would say something incredibly cutting and funny (to his readers) but all I come up with is, “Glad to hear it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Security is not too bad although they run my laptop through a second machine. There is time to shop for presents and a book to read on the plane, and even time for scrambled eggs and a cappuccino. I anticipate having real food only on the flight from London to Atlanta. <br /><br />We have to walk out on the tarmac to the plane and climb tall steps to get into it. How would someone in a wheelchair get onto the plane? <br /><br />I find I’ve been upgraded to first class. <i><b>First class!</b></i> I am only six steps away from the bathroom. Plus the crew-mate is a real cutie. I wish the flight to Heathrow was longer. Somehow they give us honored guests a tasty lunch in that short time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hate leaving this luxury but the trip is over and I have to find my way to the proper gate for the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Atlanta </span>plane. I don’t have much time and the directions are horrible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The plane to Atlanta is delayed because of earlier storms. I doze off for about 30 minutes but mostly read my new Swedish mystery book until we land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to go through Customs or something, maybe Security. I’m not sure because I woke up at 5 AM in Ireland and it is now 9 PM in Atlanta, meaning it is 2 AM back in Ireland. I take no pictures of any of this because I am too tired to remember. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope and pray that I do not miss the 9:40 shuttle to Athens. I first have to take a bus from the International to the regular airport. I un-tense myself by joking around with my bus-mates. Pulling a suitcase, I can't run but I walk <i>very</i> briskly to the shuttle parking area where, blessedly, the Athens shuttle is still waiting. <br /><br />When the door of the Groome van opens I see Ray Freeman-Lynde and his father-in-law inside! Church friends coming back from Boston. How marvelous. I sleep half the way back to Athens although the conversation is very interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After I drive home, I am so very tired I leave my suitcase in the trunk. After greeting Toni and Feather I fall asleep without brushing my teeth.<br /><br />If only you could go places without traveling to get there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Please share your own opinions about traveling if you like. You can leave a comment (below) or, if that doesn't work, send me an e-mail at rwoodel.woodel@gmail.com.</span> </span><br />
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Sunday, June 5, 2016</h2>
<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Rhubarb! On the dining table buffet this morning. I have it, mixed with other fruits and yogurt and Muesli <i>after</i> I gobble up the scrambled eggs with smoked Irish salmon. Marvelous breakfast on this, my last full day in outdoor Ireland. It will make me strong for many hours walking the bogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another beautiful day in Ireland. Not a single drop of rain fell my whole time here. Disappointing not to use my new purple raincoat. But more disappointing: I have had no need for my dancing shoes and skirt. Unfortunately all the pub dancing happens after 10 PM, when I am in bed. Drat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am prepared for a great big day, starting with a fund-raiser for dog and cat rescue. As soon as I walk in the Letterfrack hall, I see my kind of people and stuff for sale with terrific prices, which I round up when I pay, considering where the money is going. I would love to buy some books but I can’t afford the extra weight in my suitcase. I get a couple of light-weight presents and a CD of Irish music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 11 AM I stand in front of The Country Store, meeting place for the Conamara Walkabout. I meet a <i>second</i> family from Vancouver. Some of the same folks I walked with yesterday are here but we have a new leader. Sinead (pronounced like Shinade) Keane introduces her brother (Conor Keane), who will walk with us and play some music while we’re out on the bogs. In many ways, this walk is like our Nature Ramble, with many people adding comments from their own knowledge and experience with native plants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I learn what to do next time I kneel on stinging nettle. Get some “dock” which frequently grows nearby, and rub it over the burning skin. Wish I had known that in Inisheer. My knee burned for two days. Personally, dock is one of my least favorite plants cause it’s kind of ugly but I like it more now. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My favorite travel writer is Bill Bryson. He is disrespectful and funny and likes to walk in the woods. In his latest book, <i>The Road to Little Dribbling</i>, he walks with a botanist friend who names the wildflowers they see: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">“…ladies’ bedsore, yellow cowpox, tickle-me-knickers, sneeze, old man’s crack…"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span><br />Hysterical, but sometimes this is the way it sounds, listening to botanists.<br /><br />Sitting on a baby hill amidst the daisies, orchids and sundews, looking off at the beautiful countryside, listening to Conor play his button box — what could be better? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> If you want to see more and hear Conor’s music, click on the 9 minute movie I made: <a href="https://youtu.be/H8YgrlAPy_0" target="_blank">Sunday at Conamara Bog Festival</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When our guided walk is over I go to the tearoom for homemade mushroom soup and brown bread. Then I head on my own walkabout. While I’m climbing the big hill and bogs, folks pass me speaking French, German, and Italian.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I see several different orchids: deep purple (Marsh Orchid, says Sinead), white, and sort of pink/purple. I am fairly sure they are three different kinds based upon their leaves/stems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love finding surprises in the bogs but about 4:30 PM I head for Molly’s where a famous Connemara musician will perform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I go up to the bar and say, “The signs says he’ll start playing at 5 o’clock.”<br /><br />“Well, it won’t be until 5:30. It’s Irish time.”<br /><br />“So let me buy something with no alcohol since I’ll have to drink it for the next two hours and don’t want to end up under the table.”<br /><br />“What’s wrong with ending up under the table?” asks a nearby patron. A youngish dark-haired guy.<br /><br />“I’d rather dance <i>on</i> the table then end up <i>under</i> the table,” I say. They all laugh. “Do you have something tasty and local?”<br /><br />“Nope. But I have something tasty and expensive.” He is right on both counts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> While I watch the musician’s assistant spend a full 30 minutes setting up the sound system, everyone else in the bar is watching TV. Some sort of sports game. I assume it is their version of football until I see the thing they use to pass the ball. Then I think it might be lacrosse. <br /><br />I ask a neighbor who gazes intensely at the screen. “What are they playing?”<br /><br />“I have no idea!” <br /><br />So I turn around and ask the other 27 people in the bar, “What are they playing?”<br /><br />“Hurling,” they shout at me. <br /><br />“Curling?” <br /><br />“No, hurling!” Whatever the heck that is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ireland beat the U.S. by a year or two in proclaiming no smoking in bars. I remember being stunned when I read about it. Folks at Molly’s go out to the porch to smoke. But look how much cigarettes cost (about $13).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For dinner I have two desserts. Jeez, I love vacations. While I am waiting for a taxi (to avoid dying on the road), I root around The Country Store. The Irish Times has a 16 page memorial section on Muhammad Ali. I wonder why, until I learn he had a relative from Ennis and came back here for a visit where he was treated like a king.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I return to Rosleague Manor, I make a pilgrimage to see their Tamworth pigs for the sake of my friend, Mary Elizabeth. The hotel dog escorts me to the pigs. And then back. Their pigs root around, clearing the soil. Employee pigs.</span><br />
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After an early breakfast tomorrow, Andrew will drive me to the bus “station” in Letterfrack. I leave behind the three used t-shirts I brought for just this purpose. It makes room for the extra items I got at the sale and the national park. Tomorrow is all day transportation. I set the alarm for 5 AM.</span><br />
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LEAVING INISHEER</h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">After a full Thursday June 3 on Inisheer, I take evening-sun photos of the poppies in front of the South Aran Restaurant. And pictures of Maria and Enda serving their delicious dinners. (They won’t pose.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I set three alarms so I’ll wake up on time Friday morning but wake up at 5 AM on my own. I will miss this beautiful place. At breakfast Maria asks whether I have heard the cuckoo. “Yes, on three different days but I never saw it.” She assures me that they’re hard to find.<br /><br />Both Maria and Enda drive me to the dock after breakfast. “To be sure you actually leave,” says Enda grinning wickedly. The ferry arrives at 8 AM. It’s a fun ride </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">from Inisheer to Rosaveal </span>because of high wind and waves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ON THE WAY TO CONNEMARA: A Challenge </span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">When I get off the boat, I ask a crew member where to catch the bus to Galway. He mutters something I barely comprehend and waves vaguely at a space above the exit ramp. I wander aimlessly up there, watching a bus pull out. MY bus, as it turns out. I learn this when I finally locate an office where a short, stern woman blames me for missing the bus. “I saw your bus,” she says with a disapproving frown. [If I were Bill Bryson I would write the choice words I said to myself.] </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another bus will come in 45 minutes. This is my first misconnection. It is a bit unnerving. I feel unsure of myself. During the entire day I check and re-check pieces of paper, the location of my wallet, my passport, my camera, my suitcase.<br /><br />I am so glad to find a couple who also missed the bus because she needed a stop in the bathroom. We console each other and talk a bit, sitting on the outdoor bench. The wife wears a raincoat and sits very compactly with her purse held firmly in her lap. Her husband is jovial and kind to me. She normally takes the nine minute flight to Galway from the Aran Islands. “But this time I’m with my husband.” (What does that mean?) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once in Galway, the couple and I exchange handshakes and well wishes. I need to ask three different people to help me find the next bus terminal — the one where the bus will take me west to Letterfrack. So I successfully came east to Galway and am now about to go west to Connemara.<br /><br />My bus will leave at 1600 hours. Somewhat undone by this morning’s travel shenanigans, my brain is confused about what 1600 hours means. I think it means 1:00 PM. Since it really means 4:00 PM, I have a few hours to kill on the streets of Galway. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Returning an hour early to the terminal, I read my book, “Bear in the Backseat.” It is by a Smokies forest ranger so I will give it to someone at the Connemara National Park. I share some dark chocolate with an old Irish guy sitting next to me. We kind of converse but I understand only half of what he says. I just nod my head and say “hmmm.”<br /><br />Lots of folks want to get on the bus. The driver asks first for people who had reservations (which I have), and he loads my suitcase into the compartment near the tires. He has my name on a list, which is so reassuring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I understand you pass right in front of Rosleague Manor Hotel in Letterfrack. Could you let me off there?”<br /><br />“Yup, if you remind me when we get closer.” My elderly (or is she my age?) bus neighbor says she’ll let me know when it’s time. She and I sit right up front. She can get carsick and bemoans the bumpiness of the roads. “I came to Galway to shop for clothes but got so tired from the trip I didn’t have the energy to try them on.” She used to live in Letterfrack but had to move to Clifton, a much bigger town, because of better services.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love the sheep and cows along the road. We pass the Twelve Bens (a.k.a. Twelve Pins), a bunch of low mountains. The tallest is about 2400 feet high. In several fields I see peat cut for fuel set out in geometric piles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The roads in Ireland are so very narrow. I remember being the driver when Marguerite, Roseann, Judy and I toured western Ireland in 2012. It was terrifying. I spent time shrieking, shouting for directions, panicking in general, and even stopping the car completely when lorries and buses got close. Not only is your lane skinny, but the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car and the car is on the wrong side of the road. <i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My driver lets me off right in front of the hotel. A younger (than I am) woman from Belgium offers to help me with the suitcase as we walk up the hill. “Thanks, (pant, pant), but I can handle it (pant, pant).”<br /><br />Andrew welcomes me and carries my bag up to the second floor. [NOTE to people with mobility deficits: be sure to check that your hotel or B&B has either an elevator or rooms on the first floor. It is not a “given” in Europe. I met a couple who used airbnb and discovered their room was on the fourth floor without an elevator! ] </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The hotel is like an antique maiden aunt with old lamps and furnishings. Bathroom fixtures are fancy, though. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The dining room is elegant. I am starving, having had only breakfast and snacks. Earlier, Andrew asked whether I would like dinner at the first setting, which is 7 PM. “Oh yes,” I said, although I knew nothing about what they would serve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I go into shock when I open the menu. The <i>least</i> amount I can spend is 36 Euros, which entitles me to two different main items. Yikes! Oh well, consider it a birthday treat. I order an Aran Island crab dish and a tasty, well-prepared local fish with mixed vegetables. The view out the window captures me, as do the antique furnishings. I will focus on the deliciousness of the food and the beautiful view — not the high price.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SATURDAY AT THE BOG FESTIVAL</span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">The next morning I am the first one to arrive at the 8 AM breakfast, which is marvelous! And comes “free” with the room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is only one km (less than a mile) to the Connemara National Park in Letterfrack. But Andrew warns, “You don’t want to walk along this road. It is too narrow and winds around too tightly to be safe.” He says if I call the hotel, they may have someone who could pick me up later; there is a taxi but it is costly.<br /><br />I am very excited to be at the Conamara Bog Festival. I go on a nature walk, poetry-in-the-park, a bit of a walk through the village, and hear some Irish musicians at Molly's. Here is my 12 minute movie about Saturday. Just click on it. <a href="https://youtu.be/j8CKta-rkrI" target="_blank">Saturday at the Conamara Bog Festival</a><br /><br />I buy some mementos at the National Park office and gift shop. The folks behind the counter love the “Bear in my Back Seat” book I gave them earlier in the day. One woman has begun reading it already and loves it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At a village restaurant, I have a most wonderful and inexpensive (7 Euros) dinner: a jam-packed seafood chowder with two slices of Irish brown bread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I begin walking home because I do not have numbers for the hotel or taxi in my phone. But how bad can it be? The first little bit is comfortable, with even a sidewalk. The next bit is a dirt pathway next to the road, with a big yellow line showing drivers not to hit me. Then the dirt pathway disappears. I have to walk in the street.<br /><br />I am too scared to take pictures; I just want to get home. A three foot high stone wall is on both sides of the road. Could I leap up on it if I need to? Nope. Better switch to the other side of the street because oncoming cars won’t be able to see me as they make the severe turn. And now, back to the other side because the road loops the other way. I switch sides seven times. As cars approach I swing my shopping bag like a lantern so they will notice me.<br /><br />Finally I see the Welcome to Letterfrack and the Hotel signs. Thank God! And that’s when I nearly get hit — as I cross the street right in front of the driveway. Do I not look carefully enough? Is he going too fast at a blind spot? Don’t know but I sure am happy to be climbing up the hill to my hotel. I promise myself: never again!</span><br />
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<br />Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-91677153302221084562016-06-04T13:11:00.003-07:002016-06-04T13:51:13.305-07:00THE BIG SEVEN FIVE<h2>
Tuesday May 31. The Day Before.</h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> A murder of crows wake me up at 5 AM squawking loudly right outside my window. At least 10 min. Must have been politics.<br /><br />Nina and Gian Piero are coming on a ferry from Doolin some time today but neither Maria nor I know when. About noon or so Maria will take me to a place where there are still-blooming gentians. They are hard to find and have about bloomed out but she and Enda found some that are still blooming. It will be a birthday present for me.<br /><br />Maria was told yesterday about a bee orchid blooming on the side of the road. Last night she and Enda took the car, looking out both windows, trying to find it. Reconnaissance mission. But maybe because the sun was low (about 10 pm), or maybe their friend was wrong it was not to be seen. But then again, it is always difficult to spot. I am touched by their efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While I am waiting for Maria and Enda to come for me, I take photos of teeny flowers with my close-up lens. I am in place for quite a few minutes trying to get them in focus. While I kneel there, one of the beautiful blue, fast-flying butterflies comes by and sits five inches away. My first pre-birthday present of the day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then Nina and Gian Piero arrive. Really big birthday present! Plus they are willing to pretty much drop everything and go to find the gentians. They are in a hidden mini-meadow along with many other beautiful flowers. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pussy Toes!!! Wonder what they are called in Irish.</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nina and Gian Piero flew from Germany to Kerry and then rented a car for a hair-rising ride to Doolin on the “wrong” side of the road. I tell them my story when I was the driver in 2012. Lots of laughs now, but it was scary at the time. <br /><br />We walk along the ocean to town and then further, toward the cemetery. While they eat lunch, I have a luscious Bailey’s cheese cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At breakfast Nina pulls out the biggest birthday candle I have ever seen. At the Inisheer shop, they had no birthday candles, only “church” candles. I am serenaded with Happy Birthday in English and Italian. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After one of Enda’s delicious breakfasts, we head off for a trail I had not yet explored. We walk through town toward the airstrip, waving goodbye as Enda flies to Galway. His phone won’t work so the nine minute flight to Galway will get him to a phone store. The ferry trip is 90 minutes so it’s a real time-saver.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A leak in the underground pipes delivering water has meant workers are digging holes here and there. They finally get them all, which is a great relief to businesses and homes because water has to be delivered to the island at a huge daily cost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We find a glorious isolated beach with a great many tide pools. It is warm and sunny with a slight breeze. There is that subtle down-by-the-seashore smell we all like. Aside from the sound of the waves, we enjoy the quiet for almost an hour before anyone appears to add a some people sounds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now this is the place where I am supposed to sit on a rock and think deep thoughts. </span><br />
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Later, I make a 4 minute quickie movie on the Inisheer tidal pools: <a href="https://youtu.be/LrDPnUVcYSo">https://youtu.be/LrDPnUVcYSo</a><a href="https://youtu.be/LrDPnUVcYSo" target="_blank">Inisheer Tital Pools</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While I am enjoying this glorious day in exotic Inisheer, Toni is back in Bishop painting the back ramp. Another birthday present!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The huge rusted old ship called the Plassey was washed up in a big storm after it was sunk off shore. It is in the opening shots of a Brit comedy called Father Ted. Perhaps that is why so many are admiring it. In this sheep photo, I can see the Plassey still ahead of us.</span><br />
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By dinner, still kind of full, I have two appetizers instead of a real dinner. Maria says she got very good directions for where the bee orchid is supposed to be and checked it out this afternoon. Her friend made a mistake; it is not a bee orchid. Maria is not surprised because they normally bloom in mid-June. So I take a photo of the picture she has on the restaurant wall.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At 10 PM a beautiful sunset says goodbye to my birthday. Now I am on my way to becoming 76 years old. (I have to figure out how to change the top of this blog.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you so much to those who write me back. Especially, when I am traveling, it feels heart-warming to be connected.</span><br />
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</span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-38394666742619711222016-05-30T23:05:00.001-07:002016-06-01T15:00:45.760-07:00GOOD GRIEF! AND GOOD NEWS!<h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next two paragraphs are old news for those of you who have been following this blog. But the dates are important if you want to understand what can happen to an aging mind. Actually, <i>four</i> aging minds.<br /><br />I began planning this trip to Inisheer in November 2015 based upon a Guardian article on “10 Best European Islands You Probably Never Heard Of.” I had filed that email in my 2016 Travel Folder, pulling it out when I began getting serious about planning my 75th birthday. <br /><br />Inisheer sounded attractive so I wrote the recommended B&B (South Aran) asking whether they’d have a room. Booked it for eight days because they had eight terrific-sounding breakfasts on their web site. In March or so I watched four artistic videos on the island and was certain I’d made a good choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 21, four days (<b><span style="color: purple;">FOUR</span></b>) before take-off for Ireland I see a photo of a pub in Inisheer. The teeniest memory -- not a dream -- peeps out behind one of those cerebral folds in my brain. Not déjà vu. I think I was in that pub! <br /><br />So on May 21 I write to the three people I thought were there with me: Judy (my step-sister), Roseann and Marguerite (friends). We had gone to Ireland together for a trad music festival in Ennis with some scouting around afterward in County Clare. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Hi. Remember when we took a boat trip to see the Cliffs of Moher? Didn't the boat take us to a little island where we walked around a bit. And Roseann and I and maybe Marguerite had a Guiness in a bar close to the beech? Look at this website and see if it rings any bells: <a href="http://www.aranislands.ie/aran-islands/Inis-Oirr-Inisheer" target="_blank">Little movie about Inisheer</a><br /><br />Before or after the boat ride, we went to walk in the Burren. (Be sure to roll the 'r's'.) Judy and Marguerite sat somewhere talking about Christy Gray while Roseann and I did the walk: <a href="https://youtu.be/f3qI5KP6PgE" target="_blank">Movie I Made About Walking in the Burren</a><br /><br />Boy have I improved my photography and movie-making skills since I made that movie!<br /><br />Jeez, I can't believe I might have done this! r<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="background-color: white;">My dear sister writes back from Twickenham (England) immediately:<br /> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gosh. It was exactly four years ago and it seems like only last month to me, probably because I still speak about it so much! What a lovely boat trip it was, and how I tried my damndest to see Puffins.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Burren was memorable because it was so otherworldly. I vividly remember talking to Marguerite about Christy Gray and enjoying myself. I also remember every delicious meal, especially the French - fried sweet potatoes. It was wonderful on the boat ride when we hoped to see Dolphins, although they never materialised.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />AND NEVER SHALL I FORGET THOSE FANTASTIC CHIEFTAINS----OR ANY OF THAT WONDERFUL MUSIC.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Seeing your lovely movie of The Burren brought it all back ----so powerful it is! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><br />Thank you, love Judy</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Notice she does not say she remembers Inisheer?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Roseann writes back:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;">You are DEFINITELY not crazy but.....after thinking on this for two straight days, I have to admit I don't remember. I DO remember being on the boat & passing the Cliffs of Moher (a bit of a choppy ride, as I recall) but can't remember the rest.<br /><br />On the other hand, if you had a question about the Maine trip -- or the music trip to Ireland -- I can recall details of those trips better. Sorry to not be able to help, Rosemary - but I enjoyed looking at the websites.<br /><br />Ciao!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess I’ll find out when I get to Inisheer whether my "memory" is only a figment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">GOOD NEWS!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 22. I learn that a most lovely friend of mine, Nina, is coming to Inisheer from Germany for my birthday. I had seen Nina near Thanksgiving, when she came to the States for some personal business and visited us in Bishop. While there, she asked what I was doing for my 75th birthday. When I told her, she declared enthusiastically, “I’ll come there to help celebrate your birthday! At least I’ll try to come.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Nina has a difficult job in Germany with barely enough time to communicate, let alone plan holidays. So I did not expect to hear from her. And did not. In mid-May I wrote that perhaps I could fly to Germany at Christmas time to see her. If I had any travel money left. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Then <i>three</i> days before I am to leave for Ireland, Nina writes that she and her partner have booked a plane and will be here on Inisheer on June 1! </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">What an amazing present! </span>So now we will <i>all</i> sit on a rock and think deep thoughts (what I had originally planned for my birthday). There are certainly plenty of rocks in Inisheer. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">FERRY TO INISHEER - May 27</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My alarm AND wake-up call get me up before 6 AM so I can walk around aimlessly, supposedly packing, before breakfast, which is served at “half seven in the dining room.” When I see about 57 people sitting around finishing their breakfast coffee or tea, I realize that “half seven” means 6:30, not 7:30. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <br />My ticket for the ferry bus says it will arrive at 9:30 but to get “there” 15 minutes beforehand. I stand at the designated spot at 9 AM, watching people walking up and down the prom. One brave soul swims in Galway Bay. About 9:20 I am thinking it would be nice to pee someplace. But I am afraid to leave my post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 9:40 I send an email to the Aran Ferry people, asking where the bus is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As soon as I’ve gotten my suitcase put in the designated corner, I look for a toilet. Whew! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Standing on the deck is terrific but so is dozing inside. </span><span style="font-size: large;">One of the mates tells me I will get off at the second island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What has become of my suitcase? There it is: the pink strap with mooses on it is showing at the bottom of the pile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most items for island pubs, restaurants, and stores come on a ferry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interesting signage makes you wonder if the cute four-legged is a cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As they wrote, Enda and Maria are waiting for me at the pier, in their dark blue Nissan. Enda explains he must have a beat-up old car on the island; it has to be simple enough for local people to fix. Like Cuba.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I take a picture of this large sign before I get in their vehicle. It is the exact same sign I photographed in 2012. The dolphin warning sign is new, however. Enda says people have annoyed the dolphin so he annoys them back. Later, Maria says dolphins are never friendly in the harbor. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the winter, I had reserved a room for two people, just in case Nina would be able to get away from her job. It’s a lovely place with bird song and breezes coming through the window. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Flowers grow in the "grykes" -- the sunken slits between flat limestone rocks.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I remember taking a photo of this memorial back in 2012</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A different sort of rock has indentations collecting ocean water when the tide is out: tidal pools.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I learn that the local air service is extremely important for commerce and health. It is partially paid for by the Irish government but some politicians want to end it. Should that happen, elderly will suffer and some will lose their jobs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Heading back toward my cottage, I pass "our" pub. My memory is real. We were here in 2012 for sure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At South Aran Restaurant (where Enda and Maria are owner-cooks) I am still shaking my head at the forgetfulness of four women. I enjoy a beautifully seasoned lamb dinner, the best I have ever eaten. The sun does not set till 10 PM but somehow I fall asleep at 9:30. I do not have to go anywhere until June 3. I am beginning to feel at home.</span><br />
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Getting to Dublin</h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">My Tuesday morning e-mail tells me I can now print my boarding pass and select my seat. Only I can’t. The British Airways website is defective this morning. I try five times and finally call customer service, hours after most of the seats have been chosen. The kind woman I speak with sees what is wrong with their web site. She makes some sort of adjustment and asks whether I would like her to select a seat for me. Absolutely! <br /><br />The agent assigns me an aisle seat, which is handy if you need easy access to the loo. A window seat is nice for this 8 hour flight because you can lean against the window to sleep. So either one would be fine. I have seat 23D. Rather than feel aggravated by the B.A. website snafu, I wait for the Universe to show me the good part of this. <br /><br />As we enter downtown Atlanta, the Groome shuttle driver points out the “real Georgia gold on the top of the State building.” <br /><br />“Good,” I say. “If the State goes broke, they can sell it!”<br /><br />While I’m waiting at the British Airways gate for London, I see people come by in wheelchairs, with canes and crutches and limps. With untied sneakers, hiking shoes, sandals. Only plane crew have high heels. Remember ages ago when female passengers wore heels, stockings, gloves and hats? Folks here wear pants, long and short dresses, saris, shorts, and leggings. One Muslim woman has a sky blue caftan with white eyelet trim. <br /><br />We leave 20 minutes late. I have a terrific seat for this eight hour flight. Not First Class but the next best thing. Big seat, lots of leg room. Friendly Brits in the next seat are returning home from a “holiday in the States,” my neighbor tells me. “We landed in Atlanta and rented a car, going up to Tennessee. Combination of Civil Rights and Elvis Presley pilgrimage.” <br /><br />I actually sleep on the plane -- so unusual for me. Several hours. This wonderful seat, obtained for me by the B.A. agent did the trick! It is now Wednesday.<br /><br />We have to circle around Heathrow for 20 minutes. It is a tight connection for my plane to Dublin. I breathe slowly, trying to stay calm as I nearly run down very long tunnels in the basement (?) trying to find my right gate. Signs are plentiful but vague, and then stop altogether. Oh dear! <br /><br />I see lines of people waiting in passport control. “You’ll make it, dear.” My heart is beating like it does hiking in mountains. Oh, no! I have to go through security again? “No pictures allowed,” say the signs, so I cannot photograph the jam of humanity. Agents and other travelers help me get a bit further in the line because my plane is supposed to stop boarding at 1:00 PM (or 1300) and that is exactly what time it is.<br /><br />I arrive at my gate at 1:10 PM. Miraculously the line is still entering the plane. Thank you, God! I have a cup of tea on the plane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having eaten no breakfast or lunch, I am starving at 4:00 PM. I want fat and sugar -- now! Fortunately the airport coffee shop sells chocolate milkshakes. Wonderful medicine.<br /><br />I eventually find the right bus for Galway. The cute, middle-aged driver heaves my heavy suitcase into storage under the bus and welcomes me aboard. He comes from Budapest but has lived in Ireland for about four years. “I make mistake coming to this rainy place,” he says as he gives me a cough drop and a bottle of water. “I learn all my English on radio and TV. No school.”<br /><br />“Do you know whether this bus is going to Galway?” asks a man at the door of the bus. As he puffs up his chest, my driver says: “I know everything. I am bus driver. I am the Alpha and Omega.” <br /><br />“Please to sit up here behind me,” he asks, “So we can talk.” Which we do for the 90 minute trip. About religion, politics, technology, travel to Romania, and traffic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Traffic gets terrible entering Galway. My driver, who had told me he has Jesus in his heart, lets fly a few choice words when he sees that the Garda have pulled over two cars for tickets AND they are blocking HIS driveway into the bus station. He will be late getting home so he won’t have time to walk before dinner. Trying to control his anger, he ends up letting us off on the street. As he gets my suitcase and points in the general direction of where I should walk, he gives me a chaste kiss on the cheek.<br /><br />I splurge for a taxi (9 Euros) because the walk to the hotel is much too long lugging a heavy suitcase; I am tired. The driver gives me some good tips. “Eat at that restaurant if you like fish. It is only a five minute walk from your hotel.”<br /><br />“Do you know why the hotel entrance is in the back?” he asks me. “It’s because of the extreme winter winds, which would make it impossible for the ocean-side doors to open.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The richly delicious seafood chowder and brown bread is so filling at the Fisherman Restaurant, I cancel the second thing I ordered (a smoked salmon salad). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in my room I watch Irish TV and putter around while my food settles down. The sun is still bright at 9:30 PM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wake up suddenly to sounds outside the door. Does the cat want to come in? What time is it? 9:30? What? Wait, I’m in Galway! Will Irish Breakfast Tea help me reorient?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I spend 20 minutes looking for the special plug/outlet electrical interface I bought for the trip. Not anywhere in my suitcase or backpack. It is on the second bed where I put it last night. Don’t try doing another thing! Drink the tea. Hope there’s caffeine in it somewhere.<br /><br />Read email. If it’s 10 AM here, it’s five hours earlier in Georgia = 5 AM.<br /><br />OK, my brain is working slightly better. Time to take a shower, get dressed and leave for breakfast. I move slowly and pointlessly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I see the round shower thingie now but where’s the shower head and how do you make the water come out of it? I need coffee. Maybe if I turn the round knob? Water sprinkles over my nightgown. Good grief! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Finally</i> I locate all the clothing and accoutrements I need to take on my city adventure. And out I go, with my camera and purple backpack.<br /><br />I arrive at 11:45 (15 min before the end of breakfast time) at the Fisherman. Irish smoked salmon on scrambled eggs with button mushrooms and fried cherry tomatoes: marvelous! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At noon, five tables of people arrive for lunch. A stout man and woman in their 50‘s sit at the next table, admiring a photo in the newspaper. She says to him: “A lovely couple. They remind me of ourselves.”<br /><br />As I head down to the toilet, the chef in his white hat comes running up. He gives me a big smile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’m having fish tonight,” I promise him. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Oh yes, I remember you from last night.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> “What is your freshest fish?”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’m having a fresh catch come in tonight. I’ll take care of you, darlin’.” <br /><br />When I get to the toilet, I see that the big red napkin is tucked into my shorts. That’s probably why he had such a big smile! Forgetful little old lady, he probably thought. Drat! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After I finish breakfast, the waiter asks, “Are you all finished up with your grub there?” He’s moving to San Diego in August “indefinitely.” I order a second mug of Americano and feel alert, finally.<br /><br />I head toward Galway since I am actually south of it, in Salt Hill. The Prom (promenade) is full of enthusiastic exercisers and amblers, enjoying mellow weather along the ocean. A man my age in a wool cap and dark jacket walks on the irregular rocks instead of the smooth pavement. Testing his balance, I suppose. Or feeling like a kid. I happily discover a public toilet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A man in a business suit comes toward me eating a vanilla ice cream cone. Since he was the 10th person I declare, “Folks around here sure love ice cream.” “Well, this feels like summertime,” he explains. It is in the low 60’s and breezy.<br /><br />I see two fellows, bundled up, sitting on a bench with a few cans of empty beer cans at their feet. They seem down-and-out, but cheerful when I greet them. “I used to be a photographer,” says the younger one. We talk about weather. The older, unshaved fellow says, “It’s much colder where I come from: Donegal.” I tell them that I love it cold but in Georgia it’s too often hot and sunny. “Take us with you to Georgia.”</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>It's in Irish but seems to say something about intestinal parasites.</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Strange buildings, shops and interesting items for sale. I have taken so many photos of Galway, I need to make a movie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I wear a tank top, t-shirt, my bush vest (with 57 pockets) and a skort (skirt over shorts). Feels fine for the first two hours of brisk walking, but then my arms get cold. I had researched charity shops back home, so I head for 9 Lower Abbeygate Street. I misread the map but Irish-sounding folks help me find it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My kind of store. At first there are only two customers and one sales person. I find a good quality pink-and-gray striped turtle neck with long sleeves for one euro. What a deal! I am able to tell Esma that I briefly visited Bosnia (her home country) as we shake our heads over the sadness of war. <br /><br />Then we talk about thrift shops in “America.” <br /><br />“I bought this at a Goodwill store for $3.50,” I tell her, pointing to my skort. She is willing to be in my photo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The area around Eyre Square is packed with shoppers but I am there on business. I need a bank ATM and a phone store. One minute later, they appear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I get some more euros and a new chip for my phone so I can use data without being charged an arm-and-a-leg. The Vodophone agent is very kind. "Be sure to give someone your new phone number before going out walking by yourself."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Travel Information office, I get free maps and ask a lonesome agent (there are five of them and I am their only customer) the best way to get from my hotel to the Aran Island ferry bus. He says they can stop right across from my hotel. <br /> “Go across the street to the ferry office. Ask them to tell the driver to stop at your hotel.” <br /> “It’s really important that they stop for me,” I explain. Squeaking slightly, I sound a teeny bit scared. <br /> “Throw your suitcase at the bus if they don’t stop,” he adds helpfully.<br /><br />At the Aran Island Ferry office I meet two men who will also be on "my" ferry, I learn. Altogether, fourteen students from Kent State in Ohio!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have walked six miles on pavement so far. Pavement miles are much tougher that six woodland miles. I head back to rest my poor feet and get organized for leaving tomorrow. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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But I can’t resist a free attraction right by the river Corib. In the days <b><i>before the Magna Carta was signed</i></b>, back in the 12th Century, it was a private river owned by the First Earl of Ulster. In the 1970’s, when it was closed for fishing, 200 salmon were brought up in a single net. In the fishery watch tower, I meet a sweet English couple. Their first time in Galway, it was supposed to be their honeymoon trip 44 years ago. Then I keep walking.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">After about 11 miles of walking on pavement <b>both feet and both legs</b> are cramping up terribly. I sit on a bench and pray that I can get back to the hotel. I drink a whole thermos of water with an Advil as I do foot and leg stretches. <br /><br />When I stand up, everything is fine. I am hungry for dinner and need protein to keep going. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Fisherman restaurant I strike up a conversation with the couple next to me. They invite me to join them at a table-for-three. Tony and Sam work in Australia half a year and don’t-work in England half a year. They have lived in California and Saudi Arabia for about two years each and have the most fascinating stories about their travels. <br /><br />I am facing the bay while we’re talking. I see a couple of dolphins over Tony’s shoulder and point them out. I reach for my camera but Tony says, “Sorry to disappoint you, but they’re swimmers in black wet suits.” That’s a cute story so it doesn’t disappoint me at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Henry, the cook, fixes me a grand plate of monk fish filet on veg, with mussels all around. It is a fabulous dinner for many reasons.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"Actually, I think it's a bit large for me," I tell Henry.</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is “Trad on the Prom” being held at “my” hotel tonight. Irish music and dancing. It is semi-expensive and I have seen a similar show in Richmond (England). I want to go to bed early, if possible. So at “home” I write up some notes and download my pictures while watching Irish TV. I see a genealogy show where a famous Irish actress uncovers information about her grandparents’ activities against people being removed from their homes, a sad financial time generations ago.<br /><br />I leave tomorrow! I set my own alarm <i>and</i> ask for a wake-up call as well. I do not want to oversleep. But first I have to actually <i>fall</i> asleep. Must have been those two Americanos after 12 PM. (I end up sleeping four hours.) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here are an assortment of bird and flower photos I took on the walk, mostly along Galway Bay. The lichen picture is for Don.</span></span><br />
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<br />Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-15106476753140748502016-05-20T07:00:00.000-07:002016-05-20T07:00:00.624-07:00AM I READY FOR THIS?<h2>
AGING IS WONDERFUL</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I read this in an e-newsletter about aging and understand most of it. Carl Jung's Seven Tasks of Aging are:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Facing the reality of aging and dying</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Life review<br /> Defining life realistically<br /> Letting go of the ego<br /> Finding new rooting in the Self<br /> Determining the meaning of one’s life<br /> Rebirth – dying with life <span style="font-size: small;">(don’t know what this means)</span><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Anatole Broyard wrote in The New York Times in 1990:<br /><br /> "If we face the reality, at 63 or 70, 75, 80, or 90, that we will indeed, sooner or later, die, then the only big question is how are we going to live the years we have left, however many or few they may be?<br /> <b> “What adventures can we now set out on to make sure we'll be alive when we die?”</b><br /><br />Who and where is Anatole? I need to give him a big hug.<br /><br /> Becoming 75 on June 1 seems like a big deal to me. Roland, my church friend who will be 95 in June, laughs. But this is how it seems to me: It is such a privilege to be this old and to be in good health when some folks have already died or are in failing health. I want to celebrate! Have lots of adventures, learn as many new things as my damaged brain can handle. <br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />A year ago I saved an article in The Guardian titled “10 of the Best European Islands You Probably Never Heard Of.” I retrieved it out of my email file in November. Hmmm. The one in Ireland sounded promising:<br /><br />“This is an island of ancient language and mythology where the white beaches stretch out into the Atlantic. The smallest island in the Aran archipelago, Inis Oírr (pronounced Inisheer) only got permanent electricity in 1997. The Inis Oírr trail threads through fields carpeted with wildflowers; gentian, cranesbill and ladies mantle dust your ankles as you pace around the island under the shadow of O’Brien’s ruined 14th-century castle. Recuperate at Ostan Inis Oírr with a pint of Guinness and live music, which gets visitors up for a dance.<br /><br />“South Aran House, with doubles from £60 B&B, is a guesthouse with free Wi-Fi, four en suite rooms and underfloor heating. The attached cooking school suggests that guests are in for a treat at breakfast.<br /><br />“Ferry from Ros a’Mhil costs £19, adult return, with Aran Island Ferries.”<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wildflower hikes. Good food. Live music. Ferry. The web site of the B&B looks enticing. <b>Sample breakfast menu: </b><br /><br />1 The Full Irish - Sausage, Black and White pudding, Rashers, Fried Egg and Tomato.<br />2 Scrambled Free Range Eggs with Fresh Coriander on Buttered Toast.<br />3 French Toast with Crispy Bacon and Maple syrup.<br />4 Pan Fried Apple Fritters, Aran Potato Cakes, Oven Roasted Herbed Tomatoes, Red Pepper and Onion Compote with Savoury Omelette<br />5 Rashers of Free Range Bacon on Soda Bread Foccacia with Cream Cheese and Aran Apple Chutney.<br />6 Organic Oat flakes soaked in Apple Juice with Grated Apple and Strawberry Yoghurt.<br />7 Kippers gently Poached and served on Toasted Rustic Bread<br />8 Fresh Mackerel Fillets with Homemade Brown Soda Bread and Lemon Mustard<br /><br /><br />Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. OK, that settles it! I write them immediately to see if they have a room for about a week including my birthday (June 1). They do. I book it. Impetuous? Maybe, but it feels right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then there’s the restaurant for dinners:<br /><br />“SOUTH ARAN RESTAURANT provides menus based mainly on local produce. Delicious Seafood Chowder, Soups and locally caught Wild Fish, produce from the Island. We think that it is important that the food we eat does not have to travel too far, especially food that can be produced locally.” From <i>their</i> website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I find four wonderful youtubes about the island through the seasons. This one is about summer, when tourists come to language school or just to hang out. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llza7eNerJU" target="_blank">Inisheer in the Summer</a>. English is not the primary language on the island as you can hear in the movie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the music (with dancing, I hope)! As a Ukrainian, why do I like Celtic music so much? Maybe it is our common Viking genes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Turns out this trip will be complicated — very! First I’ll fly to Dublin (via Heathrow). I’ll have to take a bus to Galway because the bus to Ros a’Mhil (also called Rosaveal) comes only from Galway. I guess I’ll stay in Galway a couple of days to get over the long plane ride, use an ATM, get phone service, and scout around. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I book a Galway hotel in an area not far from the bus station. </span>OK, from Galway to Rosaveal, then the ferry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are no woods or even hills on Inisheer. It is all limestone. In Georgia wildflowers and ferns can be different where there is limestone. For instance, maidenhair ferns and gay wings grow only on the part of Georgia's Panther Creek Trail which has some limestone under it. Checking out the island's wildflowers will be so much fun.<br /><br />I investigate whether Inisheer has any bogs. Nope, nothing but rock apparently. None on the other two Aran Islands, I learn. I have enjoyed bogs/swamps and photographed them in Georgia and in Maine and nearby Canada (Campobello Island).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I find out on-line, moving circuitously through Irish nature links, that there is a Bog Festival in mainland Ireland. Bog Festival??!! Just exactly what I like: walks and music. The Bog Festival is in Conamara, not that far (on the map) from the Aran Islands. This is so exciting I overlook the complication of getting there.<br /><br />Conamara has a very different terrain from Inisheer. In addition to bogs it has mountains. The bogs may not be like the ones I’ve seen before. They are peat bogs. I look forward to learning about them and seeing their wildflowers. Because of staying on Inisheer till June 3, I will miss the first part of the festival. But there will be plenty left to enjoy June 3-6.<br /><br />It takes me a couple of weeks to find a place to stay in Conamara. I’ll stay at Rosleague Manor, in a small town called Letterfrack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How do I get there? </b> How will I get to the festival? <br /><br />Letter from the Ferry people:<br /><br /><i>“Hi Rosemary,<br /><br /> Thank you for your email. The only buses which leave Ros a’ Mhíl are heading back into Galway city. Therefore, you would need to return to Galway city before you make your way to Letterfrack.<br /><br />Kindest Regards, Úna”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">AND:<i> </i><br /><br /><i>March 1 from Rosleague Manor Confirmation Evenings of June 3-6<br /><br />Dear Mrs Woodel,<br /><br />Thank you for the inquiry, I am happy to confirm that we have availability on those dates. The rate for 3 nights B&B in a Garden/Forest View room would be €330 inclusive of taxes etc, the same deal in a Sea View room would be €360.<br /><br />Letterfrack, where most of the Festival activities take place, is only 1 km away. So if it was mostly to relax here while taking in some events in Letterfrack, the lack of a car would not be a huge issue.<br /><br />As regards getting here, if you took the ferry back to Galway city, there is a 'citylink' bus service that departs from Galway bus station and passes our front gate.<br /><br />I hope the above is some help and of interest. Kind Regards, Mark</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yikes! Now I am overcome with fear. I did start on this adventure to prove that I could not only travel by myself but make all the arrangements. But now all these <b>details</b> of places to stay plus ferry and bus schedules hither and thither freezes my brain. Even when I print the bus schedules my fear won’t allow me to read what I am seeing and to make sense of it. I need help! And get it from dear friends.<br /><br />My friend, Kathy, responds. She looks, reads, and understands. We get two of the bus connections straightened out and booked. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i>Gerry, my soon-to-be son-in-law (who is an ace at travel arrangements) studies my itinerary (which is now two pages long) to be sure I am not arriving somewhere half an hour after I should get there. He makes a suggestion about which bus to take from Letterfrack and which bus from Galway to Dublin. I love the internet! And Gerry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I pray. I chair an Al-Anon meeting on Fear and get some good reminders about the Third Step. I try not to worry. Sue read this marvelous poem by <b>Mary Oliver</b> last month at a Nature Ramble. I re-read it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I Worried</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />I worried a lot.<br />Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?<br /><br />Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better?<br /><br />Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows<br />can do it and I am, well, hopeless.<br /><br />Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,<br />am I going to get rheumatism,<br />lockjaw, dementia?<br /><br />Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.<br />And gave it up. And took my old body<br />and went out into the morning,<br />and sang.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It will be a bit rainy in “my” part of Ireland. But not a lot or for long and I am now ready for it. Look at the pretty purple things I got as birthday presents from thoughtful Hoi Pang and Gerry. A waterproof raincoat (with zip-in lining for cool nights) and a waterproof backpack. They paid close attention to the blog describing the rainy day in the Smokies when nothing I had was waterproof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The podcast describes safety issues as a woman traveling alone and how to prepare for them. And suggests bringing some Euros into the country. When I check my box of leftover currency from past trips, I have pounds from England, coins and bills from Canada, odd coins from Iceland and who-knows-where but only a two-Euro coin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First American Bank tells me they do not have currency from other countries but recommends Georgia Financial on Baxter Street. I exchange about $200 for 165 Euros. I can use an ATM in Galway for more. There are no ATMs on Inisheer. <br /><br />As the fellow at Georgia Financial counts out my Euros, I ask whether he is much of a traveler. “Nope. I want my own bed and my own bathroom. My wife traveled to northern Italy recently and said the toilet was a hole in the ground. That’s not for me.” (I think of toilets I have known in Ukraine and Uganda.)<br /><br />And then there is the Egyptian airline which just went down. Gives one pause. Let me now declare: I have had a full and wonderful life so I am prepared to say goodbye.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">I intend to spend part of my birth-day on a rock, looking out at the ocean, thinking deep thoughts, full of gratitude.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Please write to me in the comment section below or send me emails as I post entries from Ireland. Remember, I am traveling alone so I will be very grateful to stay connected to my friends and family.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-79394937928213922442016-05-16T14:38:00.000-07:002016-05-16T14:38:54.389-07:00DOUBLE ADVENTURE WEEKEND<span style="font-size: large;">In the midst of finishing planning for the Ireland trip — the really big 75th birthday celebration — I have two adventures back-to-back in one weekend. Saturday I enjoy a six hour music festival and Sunday, a wildflower jaunt. <span style="color: magenta;">And an incredible sight awaits me at the end.<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;">My friend, Paul, and I have attended the Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival first Saturday in May for three previous years. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;"> I make an exception to my 2016 rule of not spending money for musical events to buy this ticket. (With my budget, travel adventures preclude entertainment spending.) </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;">It is held in </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;">Thomson, Georgia; Paul drives.</span></span></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><br />The Universe is incredible. As Paul and I approach the gate a portly man comes toward us asking whether we have tickets already. We don’t. He offers us two at a $20 savings of what they would be at the entrance. Wow! Paul asks where this apparent stranger lives. “Athens.” <br /><br />So I say, “Well, you must know Paul because everyone in Athens knows him.” Then both say something about the other person looking familiar. Turns out they met at some party years ago. <br /><br />It is a beautiful sunny day with a nice breeze to tone down the Georgia Spring warmth. The grass is well mowed. I see no signs of fire ants. Friends and families set up canopies on the outer edge so that they don’t block the view of people on lawn chairs or blankets. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;"> Col. Bruce Hampton and the Madrid Express, is unknown to me but both Paul and Diane are glad his current group plays more melodically than in the past. This customer, a "Biker for Christ," is buying dessert.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton plays on guitar, banjo, and a tiny harmonica. His performance is personal, authentic and historical. His patter is entertaining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favorite group, <i>musically</i>, is The Cash Box Kings. They play Chicago blues, reminding me of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. I make a teensy movie clip for Bernice to hear about Everybody Goin’ Fishin’ sung by mellow-voiced Oscar Wilson. The guy with the crown on his head plays fabulous harmonica, bending blues notes sensually. It’s jolting seeing him in that light blue suit (is it seersucker?) playing sultry sounds. He should be dressed in something black I’m thinking. I close my eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favorite performers in terms of <i>heart and soul</i> are Ronnie Earl and The Broadcasters. Maybe because of their age? No, it’s how Mr. Earl reaches out to the audience. He speaks, sings, and plays TO and FOR the people in the audience, about love. I’m taken with his bass guitarist who might be my age. He has a peace pin on his guitar strap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SUNDAY May 8: Jarrard Trail</span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">Linda Chafin’s directions are clear. Go around Dahlonega, heading toward Lake Winfield Scott. Up until the very last moment, my iPhone and her directions are identical. But I find her and the group anyway.<br /><br />Walking in the woods is always an adventure. Jess, the ecologist for Forest Watch, is there. I met him at Hike Inn when he spoke and then gave a guided walk down the mountain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went on Jarrard Trail a year ago for an elective course on my Native Plant Certificate curriculum. I loved it then and love it now but can recognize some plants on my own this time. I make audio notes about the plants I don’t recognize but accidentally delete the recording. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Before we even get on the trail we see a mountain buckeye and some bright yellow buttercups.</span><br />
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The fertile frond of rattlesnake fern, according to country legend, points to “<i>sang</i>.” That stands for ginseng, of which there are two mountain varieties. The large ginseng can be quite valuable if sold. We saw the dwarf ginseng in the Smokies and at Smithgall Woods.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jess does a wonderful job of explaining something important about this tree, which might be a magnolia. Sometimes I get so aggravated with my brain! Wonderful teachers tell me marvelous things which I cannot hold in my head. And on this trip, I accidentally delete the audio notes I use </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">as my brain annex. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The last beautiful thing we see before we actually get on the trail is this tall native azalea. Knocks my sox off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This May-apple’s bloom is so pretty. Only “twins” produce the flower (two leaves coming from one stem). Once the flower becomes a fruit, it is so heavy, it pulls the plant to the ground. Box turtles eat it and, after partial digestion, expel the seeds to spread the plant in new locations. Neat, hunh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The red trillium with its flower on top, not hanging below the leaves, is called Sweet Betsy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ferns are everywhere thanks to the tiny streams and seeps. Maidenhair ferns (why are they so appealing?) give clues about what rocks are underneath the soil. Linda says limestone is not in this area so something else (did she say mafic?) is causing the right pH (acidic) for them to grow. Web site gardeningknowhow.com says: <i>Maidenhair fern history is quite interesting. Its genus name translates to “non wetting” and refers to the fronds’ ability to shed rainwater without becoming wet. The plant is the source of an aromatic, volatile oil commonly used as a shampoo, which is where its common name of maidenhair derived. Its black stems were once used as a dye in addition to being employed for the weaving of baskets. Native Americans also used maidenhair ferns as poultices for wounds to stop bleeding.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My new friend from the Smokies is here: yellow mandarin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A plant I just learned last year, Indian cucumber-root, is blooming. It is more attractive when it has dark berries. And there is a wonderful Jack-in-the-pulpit! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Wild geranium is frequent and <b>glows</b> in the dense woods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see quite a number of white trilliums which the botanists enjoy discussing: Is it this species? Or that one? I keep walking since I have nothing to add and will not remember what they decide. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A huge, still-standing dead tree is declared to be a chestnut. What a loss when they all died years ago in a blight that began with a fungus in the early 1900’s. Hopefully the new variety will be viable over time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Amidst all these beautiful flowers, ferns, and trees, is poison ivy. It is hard to keep track of, so I am glad I have on long pants and hiking boots. I hope the people </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">wearing shorts</span> are not sensitive to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see meadow parsnip, which I first learned about in the Smokies. (This photo is for Mary and Kathy, who love parsnips.) And the Clintonia, with its huge, broad and simple leaves, is blooming. Goodness, what a wonderful trail!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We tromp forward because Linda says there are pink lady slippers at the top of the hill. They are so special we admire them fully. Should we keep going? Linda says there is nothing ahead on the trail that we have not already seen. </span><br />
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lunch, enabling our</span> group to walk <i>down</i> five times faster than we went <i>up</i>. Most of the group is going on a second walk after lunch. But it took me two 1/2 hours to get to Lake Winfield Scott from home. I want to arrive back before midnight. <br /><br />I will eat my own lunch in the car but first, I need to use their clean unisex privy. I pass the lake, which looks like fun for families and fishermen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I see a tiger swallowtail fluttering by, then five. As I follow their path, I see a whole flock of them “puddling.” I walk carefully toward them. [Mostly male butterflies do this, ingesting salts and minerals to improve their sperm. They puddle around water, mud, urine or fresh dung.] <b></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just love all that color and fluttering. <b>Perfect ending to this day’s adventure.</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-7189207175182692272016-05-12T10:06:00.000-07:002016-05-12T10:06:08.548-07:00SUNDAY: LAST DAY IN THE SMOKIES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This morning all three of us are reluctant to leave the beautiful Smokies but looking forward to seeing our pets and friends at home. My knees and ankles remind me of yesterday’s eight mile walk but in short order I can actually move pretty well. Packing my clothes is fairly easy once I find a trash bag for my damp and very dirty hiking clothes. And, after breakfast, packing up the kitchen stuff is quick because we’ve eaten about 100 pounds of the food we brought. <br /><br />Then we check out. Thanks to Kathy finding us such a good place and our sharing the cost, my part for a five night stay in the cabin is $160. What a deal!<br /><br />We park at the Sugarland Visitor Center which has a nice trail right off the parking lot. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sue learned about the trail from one of her salamander workshop buddies. </span> The name of Sugarland, though, makes me think of Disney World. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to go into the center later to pick up a little gift for Toni for once again feeding Feather, the birds, and the deer and watering new plants. And I want to buy the Smokies Wildflower reference book and join Friends of the Smokies to help support this most marvelous national park. There is NO ADMISSION FEE for this incredible place with its 800 miles of maintained trails. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After we visit their modern, large, and clean rest rooms, we find the trailhead. <br /><br />We now can name the grass we see as seersucker grass. And an old plant friend from our part of Georgia — may apple — which is in bloom. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then yellow trillium, lots and lots of them. </span>And a favorite of mine, Canadian violet. Or maybe it is
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Right next to each other are Solomon Seal and what used to be called False Solomon Seal but is now called Solomon Plume. I just hate it when a plant is called “False” anything. I also detest anything called “Common” as in common blue violet. Am I being anthropomorphic when I think about these plants feeling “less than” with a name like that? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we climb up a bit we see what I think is white baneberry. Farther along we see long-spur violets on the right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we resume our walk up the hill, a friendly woman coming down asks whether we saw the Vasey’s trillium. Where? Not far down where we just were. Goodness, how did we miss that? “You have to look underneath the leaves. I’ll take you to it.” It is the largest of the North American trilliums and found only in the southern Appalachians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We cross a stream and see a large community of dwarf iris. I take a photo of large umbrella-like plants and promptly forget why. Good grief! Do you know what they are? If so, write it in “Comments” at the bottom of this blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No surprise that we see mushrooms because the ground and logs are damp. I just love walking in the woods! I am getting better at naming plants from their leaves only. I see sharp-lobed hepatica which has already bloomed out. And then bloodroot, which bloomed much earlier. Then something distinctive but what the heck is it?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The three of us join up, walk down the trail and enter the Sugarland Center. When I sign up as a “Friend,” they give me the 2016 “Smokies Life” magazine. I am excited to read that the 47-year-old Park Superintendent, Cassius Cash, is African-American. He grew up in Memphis and had very little contact with the great outdoors until he became a Boy Scout. As I read about his management style, philosophy and mission, I am grateful he is in charge.<br /><br />Finally we’re on the road home. I drive the tricky curvy mountain road bit this time. Then Kathy takes over. Sitting in the back seat, I can photograph a motorcyclist who must have just left the Smokies because she has a bear riding in the back seat of her motorcycle. Speaking of bears, NPR has a short story on the 1600 black bears in the Smokies. <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/05/11/477693489/wildlife-biologists-manage-bear-interactions-in-americas-national-parks" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/2016/05/11/477693489/wildlife-biologists-manage-bear-interactions-in-americas-national-parks</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kathy’s sweet dog jumps up and down when we come back to her house to un-pack and re-pack our cars. Feather turns her back on me when I return but eventually sits on my lap, forgiving my absence. </span><br />
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Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-76435249339487607192016-05-08T19:08:00.000-07:002016-05-08T19:08:11.382-07:00SATURDAY: LAST PILGRIMAGE HIKE in the SMOKIES<span style="font-size: large;">This is the hike I’m afraid of. I asked a bunch of friends to pray for me. The description: “Big Trees Hike: Albright Grove. Hike to one of the most magnificent groves of large, old-growth trees in the park. Pass wonderful displays of wildflowers and an 1889 cabin made of chestnut. Elevation change: 1600 foot ascent. A 6.5 mile, moderate hike.” <br /><br />There are 800+ miles of trails in this huge park. I can barely comprehend that. <br /><br />Since Great Smokies National Park is the most visited park of the 59 in the United States, nearby towns can get jammed with folks who don’t camp and need housing. Gatlinburg is like a small, cheap version of Las Vegas. There are 97 pancake houses and 54 barbecue restaurants. Kathy got us a wonderful two-bedroom cabin (with kitchen) on a creek. Every dinner we sit on the deck, listening to the brook gurgle and birds sing.<br /><br />Sue is going to “Salamanders of the Smokies” so she drops me and Kathy off at the Conference Center where we get on a middle-aged bus. Leon sits next to me. Turns out he’s one of the guides. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s a longer ride than I would have thought. There are over 522,000 acres in this most popular national park so it can take awhile to get to specific trails. Once we get on this trail, though, we see very few other people. I am aware that this is our last guided hike and take many photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Someone finds a beautiful spotted salamander right after we see a wild ginger with three jugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stiff shelf fungi are so large, I think they could hold a book or two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A grasshopper is making additional holes on leaves I cannot hope to identify. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> An old cabin built of chestnut wood speaks of another time. First, because the chestnut blight killed nearly all chestnuts; all we see on the trail are the dead ones. Second, because it reminds us that this national park was created completely out of private land. Eighty years ago families had to leave their homes for us to have this gorgeous place which preserves the trees and plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see lots of shiny club moss. This is a very very old plant, one of the early ones to evolve. It is not a moss, however. It is called a “fern ally.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see some real mosses also. There are so many different shapes and growing habits and shades of green. I include the one climbing the tree even though it is a bit out of focus because I love the design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see some familiar flowers from other trails and a few new guys. I enjoy seeing a new violet (long spur) and a flower called Clintonia. I just love finding Jack-in-the pulpit. They can be male or female but are still called “Jack.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I knew more about lichens, I could explain what this is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leon points out two grasses which are very distinctive: seersucker grass and Frasier's sedge. He says, “One of these days we’ll have to rename the seersucker grass because nobody will be left who remembers what seersucker was.” </span><br />
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The trees are huge and gorgeous. They tell us this is an old growth forest. “What does that mean?” Trees have never been harvested here.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We have a terrific place in which to enjoy lunch. A water strider (is that its real name?) entertains me while I eat my almond butter and jelly sandwich, careful not to drop it in the water.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Then I look under some rocks and peeling bark of fallen
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<span style="font-size: large;">After I finish eating, I take a look around, eventually crossing the stream. A fellow pilgrim who attended a program on fungi yesterday points to some teensy cup mushrooms. I think about the bird’s nest mushrooms I have in my backyard but these are much darker brown and don’t have the tiny “eggs” in the middle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our other guide, Fay, sits by the water but then responds to someone’s complaint (that she is getting cold and sore just sitting down) by saying, “Let’s go!” So we proceed up the trail and see a bunch more beautiful stuff. At some point Fay asks whether we want to return now or go another 1 1/2 miles. We vote to keep going. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Oh my, this is a giant silver bell tree! Jeez, I hope this is a different species of silver bells than mine because mine is much too close to the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These trillium have interesting insect guests.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then, Dutchman’s Breeches, in the same family as bleeding heart and squirrel corn. Those Dutchmen must have big hips!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something called a female Blister beetle is sitting
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The last half mile we walk very briskly, following two men speed-walking in front. One of them is legally blind. When we stand around waiting for the bus to pick us up, he shares a memory of two years ago. He and his wife were on a wildflower walk which was supposed to be eight miles long. It was led by a woman in her late 80’s who took them on an extra trek to avoid a fallen tree, creating a 13 mile hike. “You should meet her,” he suggests to me. “No sir, I have no interest in meeting an 88-year-old women who can walk 13 miles in the mountains!” Can’t I have my own moment of glory, walking nearly eight miles without needing to collapse?<br /><br />We save our feelings of exhaustion for when we are sitting on the bus. Kathy speaks with Sue on the phone. Sue spent an exhausting hour on the road driving to our cabin through a massively crowded Gatlinburg. To save Sue from picking us up at the Conference Center, Kathy asks the bus driver whether he could drop us off near the cabin. Actually, she promises to say prayers for his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Thankfully, he agrees, well-blessed man. <br /><br />We decide to pack tomorrow morning so we can go to bed and recover. We will go on our own unguided walk in the Smokies before we head home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I survived yesterday’s hike I will probably survive today’s. Description of today’s wildflower hike: “Abrams Falls Trail, 9:30-4:30, in Cades Cove. <i>Stroll</i> along this river trail and discover wildflowers like gay wings which flourish in this limestone valley and view one of the park’s more picturesque waterfalls. Elevation change: 500’ ascent. A 5 mile, moderate hike.”<br /><br />The terrain is not particularly mountainous in that area and I’m looking forward to seeing the special flowers in a limestone substrate. We arrive 45 minutes early, having driven on circuitous roads through attractive meadows. Sue is going on a different hike this day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Warnings abound: not getting into the waterfall pools where five people have died, how not to kill a bear. Bears are fairly common in the park. Years ago, when much less was known about how to treat wild animals, national parks encouraged feeding bears. They even had viewing stands where hotel guests in the parks could gather after dinner to watch bears foraging over leftovers. Now there are regulations for keeping safe distances and not feeding bears. These are for the safety of the bears and the people. Still, we saw parents holding small children as they approached to see the bears more closely. We were aghast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We wait as the sun gathers strength to see who our leaders will be. Kathy meditates in the car while I scout around. I must be hyperactive because I cannot sit still very long. I will never be able to calm myself through meditation. There are two Spring beauties for me to photograph while waiting: Catesby's trillium and Wood Anemone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom Patrick is one of our three guides (it must be a popular hike). Cathy and Sue know him from earlier times but while I have heard his name, this is my first experience. He is the botanist for the State of Georgia and an expert in trilliums. He is full of energy and enthusiasm. And Larry (yesterday’s guide) is here again. The third guide is a young whipper-snapper. I glom onto Tom to experience a different commentary.</span><br />
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Surprisingly to all three leaders, the first part of the woods has been burnt. Was it lightening? Or a set fire? If so, by whom? If they were trying to remove the aggressive rhododendron they overdid it, Tom says. While occasional fires are helpful to many plant species, they can be harmful to trillium. Charred woods keep going on till we reach the water, which stopped the fire.</span><br />
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Wild ginger has little brown jugs at their base. Tom examines and reports on several tree types. I love trees and used to know their names when I lived elsewhere but that fourth concussion limits my ability to hold onto new names. I am consciously choosing to not pay attention to tree names. I’ve got a possibly wacko idea that if I let in a tree name, a flower name will escape. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh dear, here are the beautiful leaves of a flower I <i>know</i> I know the name of. What the heck is it? Shoot. Anytime I see only the leaves but remember the name of the flower, it is such an achievement! Tom dismantles the root of leaves he recognizes as Yellow Root.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I now know why this trail is labelled as “moderately difficult.” Rocks!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have no problem remembering the beautiful ground cover called partridgeberry because I rarely see the flower. More commonly a red berry not eaten by wildlife is visible amidst the small dark green leaves. I covet that plant but it needs an environment I can’t provide. The teensy leaves are partridgeberry.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What I enjoy about Tom is his excitement when something new appears. “Oh, look at this!” he exclaims. I’m thinking he’s probably seen it 259 other times. Hugh Nourse (former leader of the Ramblers) was the same way. <br /><br />Later, I discuss age with Tom. He is a few years younger than I am. He and Larry have no interest in retiring since they walk in the woods almost every work day already. What could be better? they ask. I think about my last job at UGA. I was in an office with no windows. No wonder I retired the very first month I could!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We see Wood Betony (a.k.a. lousewort). This variety is mostly all yellow. The type I saw with Debbie at Victoria Bryant was bi-color: yellow and plum. I love the leaves.<br />
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Hay-scented fern is the only one that’s hairy. The hairs are on the stem. Tom repeats a way to remember how to identify New York fern. Its frond is narrow at the top and bottom, “like New Yorkers who burn their candles at both ends.”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We discover several kinds of pussytoes. Some are solitary. Some have a full cat paw. I would love to have a large patch of pussytoes in my yard but may not have the proper environment for it. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wild bleeding hearts require limestone or slate. Its leaves are like squirrel corn or dutchman’s breeches because they are in the same family. Ants carry the seeds of all three. Just like trillium. Tom tells us that some of the trilliums we see could be hundreds of years old, as old as the trees. This blows my mind! <br />
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Maybe the bleeding hearts above bled out. (Not really, they are probably seed pods.)<br />
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We see beautiful cross vine draped over some high rocks. Tom points out a tall plant he says is a giant Solomon seal. Some of the rocks are shiny black. Geology is fascinating, but in many ways it requires learning a new language. <br />
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I think I see daisy fleabane but Tom calls it Robin’s plantain. This is where it would be good to know more about the leaves.<br />
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We see mountain silver bells, giant chickweed, also called star chickweed, sweet shrub. We saw these yesterday also. An older trillium (they get pinker as they age).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tom points out in short order: Climbing fern, (looks like a vine), creeping phlox, dwarf iris, and Carolina vetch. The only plant I'd seen before was dwarf iris.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom says, "Oh, wow! Looks like creeping phlox."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I find and name the first gay wings. Tom points out its anatomy, including the propellor. What a terrifically named flower! But Tom promises more await us down the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A whole community of gay wings near the water. And we also see Indian cucumber plant before the bridge heading for the Falls.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When we eat lunch at the waterfall (where five people drowned) we see lots of wild bleeding heart and more gay wings. This whole trip is incredible. Not one of the beautiful flowers and trees we have been seeing were planted here. This is their natural home.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Walking back guide-less, I see a bear sleeping in a tree. (It is the lump in the "Y" shaped tree.) Bears den in and on trees in the Smokies because there are few caves for them.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And behold, two black snakes are enjoying each others’ company. Lest you think I am a hot-shot wildlife spotter, let me tell you the truth: other people found them first and were taking pictures. So I spotted the photographers.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Driving back we are stunned with the blinding white of some dogwood trees. Immediately after, we see a crowd of cars and some insane people walking perilously close to a black bear. The man on the right is much too close! To learn more about bears, click on: <a href="https://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/black-bears.htm" target="_blank">Bears</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We wake up early seeing rain, so we have a hearty breakfast. I put on all my rain gear: hat I’d sprayed with waterproofing stuff, hiking books likewise sprayed, waterproof fishing pants, and a rain jacket with a hood. I had sprayed my backpack to make it waterproof. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">We leave the house at 7:45 to get to the Porters Creek Trail wildflower walk beginning at 9 AM. </span>Sue drives through rain in the westerly direction, like we took toward Cade’s Cove. But then we turn left somewhere (I am in the back seat) where we end up on a very bumpy rocky road with deep holes. [Helen, it was still not as bad as the routes we took in the North Georgia woods looking for waterfalls. When I was thinking of death — of my car or us.] <br /><br />Why is it so far away? It was supposed to take only 45 minutes and we’ve been on the road longer than that. Sue can barely see through the rain-soaked window. When we can go no farther, we stop at a park office and find we are altogether on the wrong side of Gatlinburg. On the worn map of the park trails, the “Q” looked like the “O” which designated the location for this hike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we arrive at the “O” (Porters Creek Trail) over two hours late. And it is pouring. I had not brought my waterproof camera because it does not do close-up photos well. I am afraid to expose my Canon to the rain so I take very few photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we walk on the trail we see people returning already because they had had enough of the rain. Then we approach a very loud stream with big boulders and a very skinny bridge with a leaning handrail. One of us cannot continue so we head back before getting to the Falls. They should put a note about the bridge in the description of the pilgrimage hike. <br /><br />The rain abates. Kathy wants some exercise so she heads back briskly, saying she’ll meet us on the road while Sue and I amble along, seeing huge boulders, an old homestead and a well-kept cemetery. All this while I’m sure my waterproof clothing and backpack are holding back the moisture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By the time we get back “home” I realize nothing I have on is waterproof except my skin. I wring out my t-shirt, hang up everything else to dry. My backpack is wet. Everything inside it is wet so I spread it all over the rug, hoping it will dry. <br /><br />I immediately take a hot shower. For a change, I am chilled. Kathy suggests that Sue and I put our boots in a low oven to dry. After a delicious dinner we head for the Conference Center. First, I register legally for Saturday’s hike. Some folks had dropped out so there was a spot for me. It will be tough so I have some ambivalence about signing up. <br /><br />Then Kathy picks out her birthday present from an array of books, t-shirts, mugs and note cards celebrating the Smokies and all national parks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A terrific photographer shares photos of 23 of his favorite national parks, which are celebrating their 100th anniversary. Yellowstone in the winter is my favorite. Maybe some day I will go there. </span><br />
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FIRST HIKE of WILDFLOWER PILGRIMAGE</h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">Today’s wildflower hike is described like this: “A 6-mile moderate hike passing through many wildflower displays and old-growth forests from Cosby Picnic Area past the 90 foot Hen Wallow Falls and beyond. Elevation change: 1,000 foot ascent.” This trail is part of 800 miles of maintained hiking trails in the Smokies.<br /><br />I should be able to do this, having walked up to six miles before but my right knee sometimes complains after five miles. When we gather at the picnic area, a woman with a knee brace says, “Time to take Vitamin I,” as she roots through her pack. <br /><br />“What is Vitamin I?” I ask Kathy. “Ibuprofen,” she says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Early on we see shining club moss (which is either a fern or a fern-ally depending upon which expert tells you). It is common in hemlock woods. Hemlocks are dying, unfortunately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Many tree species are in big trouble because of imported insects or fungi. Efforts are being made through some sort of botanical DNA manipulation to create a resistant American chestnut because it is mostly gone. As are ash trees. <br /><br />Here, we see the actual aphid-like horror called the hemlock wooly adelgid. DNA study of the Eastern adelgids show they came from southern Japan where they are kept in check by natural enemies and possible tree resistance. Our trees die within a couple of years of being infested. Some of the hemlocks we see on the trail have a circle of paint at their base, indicating they have been treated with an expensive something-or-other which has to be reapplied between 5-10 years (depending on who tells you). </span><br />
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I am happy to see many violets of various kinds, the first being the halberd-leaved yellow violet. I even see three different ones growing near each other. Why are violets my favorite flower this year? Because they are easy to find and colorful.</span><br />
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One of my fellow pilgrims spots a pink lady’s slipper. All of us photographers take turns kneeling at her feet. These orchids are very difficult to transplant (and propagate) so DO NOT BUY THEM. They were stolen or poached from the woods. Enjoy them enthusiastically when you are lucky enough to see them in the wild.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Remember the parasitic, leaf-less, non-chlorophyll plant I saw with the two Debbies a couple of weeks ago? We see it here as well, but it has a better name in the Smokies. <b>Bear corn</b> is not insulting (like squaw corn) and not unhappy (like cancer root) and is actually descriptive. Necropsies on the black bears have shown it is their very most popular food in the Spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This trail is not an easy one to walk because of the many rocks and tree roots. To cross streams we are Olympians specializing in the balance beam. A gorgeous large quartz rock is at one stream crossing.</span><br />
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Larry tells us he and some others consider rhododendron in the Smokies, at least, as a native invasive. It can take over and create such thickets that the sun cannot get under them. Plus their roots exude some sort of chemical to restrict the growth of other plant species.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Folks making these decorative rock piles are unknowingly destroying habitats of salamanders and other creatures who live under rocks. Unfortunately it is a fad. Naturalists are trying to educate people. Bark can be removed by bears for various bear purposes they haven’t shared with me.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We see sweet shrub here and there at the edge of the trail on the ravine side. Larry asks us to smell the flowers without falling over the edge. Since my smeller is not very good anyway I pass. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Larry points out a stick which he warns us to touch with care. It is called devil’s walking stick because of the big thorns. Although only an understory tree, it will eventually have huge leaves on its top. In fact, it has the largest leaves of any native tree in the continental United States. A single leaf may be as much as three feet long and two feet wide.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is some sort of shrub with beautiful flowers which apparently have a pleasant smell. I do not remember the name. [I asked my Nature Ramble expert, Hugh Nourse, whether he might know. He does not recognize it from these two pictures.]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Then I spot a gorgeous flower and shout out, “Painted trillium!” I first saw this gorgeous flower last year on a Spring Wildflower Field Course taught by Linda Chafin. This wonderful course was an elective course in the Native Plant Certificate program at UGA’s State Botanical Garden of Georgia. I am thrilled to see this beauty and doubly thrilled that I remember its name. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No sooner do we pass the gorgeous trillium, then someone spots a Jack-in-the-pulpit. I love these guys too.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Then someone spots a moth or butterfly on a tree. Where? Where is it? I don’t see it! Finally Larry walks me to the tree and points. There it is! [It's a moth called, we think, Tulip-tree Beauty on p 257 of Kaufman's Field Guide.]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I take a picture of something, not knowing what it is. But it is looks like it will be Something. [When I review my photographs after I get home I am suspicious that it is a developing yellow lady's slipper. Don Hunter, a Nature Ramble expert, also thinks it might be a yellow lady's slipper. He has not seen one yet in the wild but hopes to.] <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I already forget what Larry calls this yellow plant. Oh dear. Is it the dreaded parsnip? Again?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fortunately the next “new” flower is a blood root with its distinctive leaf. Since it is the earliest wildflower to bloom, it already has a seed capsule. The root is orange-red, prompting Cherokee to use it as a dye for basket, clothing, and body paint.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We see only one morel but it is so beautiful! I take a photo of some sort of trillium whose flower is bashfully youthful.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Early meadow rue is wind-pollinated so they look like they have hula skirts on. These are the showy male flowers which is appropriate because I learned in Hawaii that the first hula dancers were men. It takes the slightest breeze to move these guys so a fully focused photo is not in the cards today. </span><br />
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I see a lovely big millipede. Thanks to Nature Ramble expert, Dale Hoyt, I now know the difference between a centipede and millipede. A flat-backed millipede is bashful and hides in the dirt. Kathy finds an “empty” millipede on the trail; someone sucked out its insides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The rock formations here are very dramatic. Kathy rests for a moment while chatting with fellow pilgrims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The roots we walk on have interesting circles on some of them. This one looks like a mossy leprechaun bed.</span><br />
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Star chickweed or giant chickweed flowers are so pretty. While it looks like there are 10 petals, there are really five which are deeply cut. </span><br />
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Having climbed and climbed, we are finally at the trail going directly to the falls. The falls trail is only .1 mile but it goes steeply down. I am not panting but I am tired. Walking on and around those stones and roots while climbing up is tough! At least for me. As I now climb down, all I can think about is how difficult it will be climbing back up. Saving grace: we will eat lunch at the waterfall. Revival is possible.</span><br />
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Sitting at the base of the waterfall, eating a sandwich, is so very refreshing in many ways. We contemplate on the meaning of the name of the falls: Henwallow.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When we head up, I have enough energy to vote for going a little further before turning back. The view out shows the light yellow-green of trees as they welcome Spring. After about 20 minutes, though, another woman and I opt for sitting on a log, having a really nice conversation until the rest return. “They better not have seen something truly exceptional!” <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This blue-gray lichen (?), fallen off a tree, is a delicate sculpture on a bed of brown Fall leaves. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the trail, I witness a tree seeming to deny the law of physics. How is it getting the strength to remain standing? Sometimes a courageous spirit can defy gravity.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Slightly hidden off the trail, two of us spot something unusual. We climb up a bit to check it out. It appears to be some sort of memorial with plastic flowers. Could someone perhaps have buried a loved one’s ashes there? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We see a few odd-looking natural things. The lumpy things coming out from the tree will develop into hard shelf-bracket fungi. The blue-green pieces of wood have fox-fire fungi on them; they are supposed to be bioluminescent.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the way back, there are newly dug trenches cutting across the trail diagonally. I immediately think of Don Hunter (a Nature Rambler) and Walt Cook, who have spent Tuesdays digging trenches like that at the UGA Botanical Garden.<br /><br />Toward the end of our walk we see something I think is daisy fleabane but maybe it is Robin’s plantain because the petals are different. [Please let me know about any mistakes in the Comments section below or by email.]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I find some Advil and take it with my remaining water. My feet and legs hurt as do my shoulders. Kathy kindly shows me how to arrange the straps of my backpack so there is less pressure on my shoulders. I thought being in the mountains would be much cooler but, with my Viking genes, I have gotten quite warm hiking. My tee-shirt is completely wet where it touches my backpack. I need to get one of those new-fangled packs that has a special screened fabric touching your back with air between it and the bulky, heavy part. I saved money by buying a children’s school backpack at Target but I will need to spend more money for my next one.</span>Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-41395210753011677652016-04-19T19:00:00.000-07:002016-04-19T19:00:14.917-07:00Day One: The Smokies<span style="font-size: large;">Three of us travel North toward the Smokies April 19. <span id="goog_1715854950"></span><span id="goog_1715854951"></span> Kathy, Sue and I are tickled by this sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After lunch we head toward Gatlinburg but see some nifty things first. Twice, on the roadway, we see flocks of adults and children watching intently into the woods. The first time I spot a baby bear about 30 feet high in a tree. The second time we see a large bear ambling along. <i>We</i> see this driving by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kathy remembers a nice walking trail from the last time she was here: a second growth forest full of wildflowers. She's able to find it again on her second try.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I am so very glad she remembered this. It takes an hour (at least) to walk the .75 miles because it's up and down but mostly because we have to stop and look at these gorgeous plants. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skipper on a White Trillium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closer Up to Show the "Sexy Bits" as Don calls them</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Two Insects Procreating and Dusting off Pollen on a White Trillium</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The number of trillium is startling. Soon we just walk blithely by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Folks I talk with on the trail either know nothing at all about the plants <i>or</i> know more than any of us do and have already been on this walk last week or two weeks ago. And "you really missed a show because the plants are developing two weeks ahead of time." It looks pretty beautiful to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here is a flower I saw for the first time at Shirley Miller and misidentified. Hugh Nourse set me straight. It's called Bishop's Cap. He said the tiny flower is beautiful and reminds him of a snowflake. So I spent quite awhile trying to get that little bugger in focus. By Jove, it <i>is</i> like a snowflake. Here are several shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> An Orchid</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cathy, Sue and I do not know what this is when we see it early on the trail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But after we see more mature versions which Kathy identifies, I'm pretty sure it must also be Showy Orchis (which is an orchid). In my book called "Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers" it says it is fairly rare. Oooo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kathy and Sue are more enamored of the trees than I am. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see a variety of other beauties, some of which I cannot now identify. Since we will be going on four guided wildflower walks maybe answers will come later.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe this is a meadow parsnip</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solomon's Plume</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Or is THIS a meadow parsnip. Oh dear!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Mandarin maybe? My first time to see this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who wrote on this and how? Leaf miner when the plant was still curled up?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some sort of phlox</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sure wish I knew what this is</td></tr>
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We se a jack-in-the-pulpit growing at the foot of a tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And lots of beautiful violets of various species.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do not photograph the yellow and purple ones since I might overdo one of my favorite flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Kathy gets down to smell these yellow trillium and says they smell like lemons. When Sue gets down to smell one, she ends up with pollen on her nose. Kathy says, "Sue's a pollinator."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We think these unusual white flowers are Dutchman's Breeches, but a knowledgeable woman pronounces them Squirrel Corn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This next plant is a mystery to us all. Is it a newbie? Or a green flower? Or is it the dreaded parsnip? Oh dear!</span><br />
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This is the first blog I have written on the day we have our adventure. But it is almost 10:00 PM. I will brush my teeth and hit the sack because we have a full-day on a Cove Trail tomorrow.</span><br />Rosemary Woodelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15475203298745955947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532201202437127737.post-79317387238942215072016-04-18T16:07:00.000-07:002016-04-18T16:07:00.349-07:002 Adventures with 2 Debbies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a blessing to have friends who are just excited about having adventures as I am. On April 3, the first Debbie and I have a long Sunday afternoon, stretching into evening. The second Debbie and I wander in the woods on Wednesday, April 13.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I never heard of <b>Hamburg State Park</b>. It may be that Debbie is my only friend who <i>has</i> heard of it, having visited it for years. We drive South below Route 20, near Sparta. I reflect on how often I head North toward the mountains. I need to balance my adventures; become omni-directional.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fisher men and women, boaters, hikers and picnickers enjoy it. We decide to hike around the lake. Since Debbie is also a photographer, we both stop frequently.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Below are many pictures from a community of <i>scores</i> of Atamasco lilies. I had never seen so many!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we spot some nifty animals, too. I do not know what type of frog or spider we see here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and the weirdest plant you may <i>never</i> have seen. The first time I saw this I was hiking alone in Gorges State Park. When I saw these ?things? I had to call out to strangers. “What are these?” Nobody knew. So as soon as I got home I sent my photo of it to Hugh and Carol Nourse. I wasn’t even sure it was in the plant category. They told me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a plant which has no chlorophyll. It is parasitic on the roots of oak trees. It used to be called Squaw Corn but since that is politically incorrect, it is now called Cancer Root. Come on, could they not have selected a better name? As you can see from the array of photos, it fascinates me. The fattest wildflower book I have says it grows from Nova Scotia south to Florida, is <i>common!</i> and is popular with bears. Since I have seen them twice in 75 years, one can presume there are a great many bears around here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Folks who fish have the benefit of sitting or standing along the beautiful water for hours, and sometimes catching fish to eat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see a bird swooping down to gather something in or on the water, then swooping back up to the trees. I take the best picture I can with the camera I have. Two clever Oconee Audobon folks say it is an Eastern Kingbird. The first I think I've seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then on to a tiny town with an even tinier old jail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aaron Burr was held in this small space in 1807, on his way to being tried for treason. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As the sun is setting Debbie pulls into a restaurant in the Buckhead area where I meet Sandra Glass, the choir leader of the Bishop Methodist Church. I played the piano there for six years as a donation to the community. We enjoyed working together so it was marvelous seeing her again. <br /><br />Coming home from Debbie’s house I use my iPhone which chooses to direct me through the darkest, loneliest country-est roads I’ve never seen before. I’m singing “God is keeping me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">DEBBIE TWO<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Debbie spent many happy hours as a child and mother in <b>Victoria Bryant State Park</b>, near Danielsville. This is our second trip there together, but the first in Spring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">We both love the sound of the stream splashing over the
shoals so we choose the walks closest to it. Rhododendron and mountain
laurel are blooming on the shore line. It has taken me nearly 75 years
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see wild flowers scattered here and there.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flowers on Dog Hobble, a.k.a. Leucothoe</td></tr>
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These two (above and below) are Catesby's trillium. Isn't it beautiful?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Violet Wood Sorrel (in the Oxalis family; see leaves?)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A charming yellow composite</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lyreleaf Sage (a Salvia)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Might be a Cream Violet. Leaves are different than the common one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pussy Toes. Don't you love the name? See below close-up also.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pussy Toes in the front with Cinquefoil behind.</td></tr>
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Several kinds of ferns and mosses are on our path, plus a small stand of running pine.<br />
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Above and below are photos of Cinnamon Fern.<br />
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I see a new (for me) wildflower. I admire its two colors and radial design but when I find it in a reference book, I am appalled to learn its name: common lousewort. First, I hate it when beautiful flowers are called “common” but “lousewort” on top of that? On Nature Rambles I’ve learned that “wort” is an old English term for “plant.” But what about the “louse” part? Apparently it was believed when the common name came about that cows which ate this plant developed lice. Its Latin name is Pedicularis.<br />
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And I have never seen a grass (?) like this either. Where is Linda Chafin when you need her?<br />
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[From a medicinal plant website: “I find it most useful for back pain, upper to lower. Pedicularis is also useful for neck and shoulder tension. For massage therapists, giving this plant to particularly tight patients before working on them can be helpful. An advantage of skeletal muscle relaxants is that they do not dumb down one’s thinking and so can be taken throughout the day.”]<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We enjoy a relaxing lunch near the shoals, watching a
small family play in the water. Next time I’ll stick my feet in the
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Several insects, including two pollinators, and a spider show up. <br />
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I think I see a bee gathering pollen through the back door of this flower (above) but check it at home with my friend-expert, Dale Hoyt who says: <br /><br />“You’ve almost remembered it right -- the bees don't gather pollen through the "back door"; they gather nectar. In many flowers the nectar is produced at the base of the petals. Biting a hole in the base allows an insect to get the nectar without going through the front door. The insect might not have a tongue long enough to reach the nectar or it might not be strong enough to force its way past the petals to get to where the nectar is produced/stored.<br /><br />Looks to me like the corolla tubes have slipped down the style, carrying some nectar with it. Since these flowers are long past being pollinated it can't count as nectar robbing. But when the flowers were ready (the corollas back at the base of the style or ovary, then the bee would bite a hole in the base of the corolla to get at the nectar. That is nectar robbing. What this bee is doing is more like someone picking up junk that was put out on the curb for the trash pickup. If they had been a day earlier and broken a window to enter the house to take the same items they would have been called robbers.<br /><br />I know this is splitting hairs, but I can't help myself!”<br /><br />If you want wonderful friend-experts like Dale and live in the Athens area, come to the Thursday morning Nature Rambles at the UGA State Botanical Garden of Georgia. That’s where I get taught all this wonderful stuff. Notice, I say “get taught” not “learn.”<br />
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