Mat & Amie Levine

Last Thursday, while driving home from my campfire program, this was the wonderful view I enjoyed:

Then on Friday, I worked up at the C.G. visitor center where we get to have a one hour rove/hike.  It was a BEAUTIFUL day and the catawba rhodendron were blooming along with some flame azalea.

The trail was even beautiful with the blooms along the forest floor.

Sometimes, I just can’t believe that this is my job!  I sure am lucky!

Our garden is loving all the rain it has been getting this year! We’ve been enjoying peas, broccoli, squash and cucumbers from it all ready. Luckily, we started the zuchini a few weeks after the yellow squash…we are all ready having to give away about 3-4 squash a day and if we had zuchini on top of that people might not really appreciate it!

Yesterday afternoon, it downpoured rain for about 15-20 minutes and there were gusts of wind that were so strong I was kind of worried some of the trees were gonna blow down! When I wandered around to tell people about my campfire program, I was only able to find about 8 people at their campsites so I was afraid that there wouldn’t be anyone at the program. But luckily, I had a good crowd show up who was really fun.

There was one person there with a large camera who kept standing up and taking photos from different angles, too bad he didn’t come talk to me afterwards and I could have asked him to email me some pics of myself and I would have been able to post them!!

Last weekend, we went on a beautiful hike in the rain.  We explored and wandered up a creek for a lovely afternoon.  We saw so many different flowers and it was cool to id  the flowers that we did not know.

Mat figuring out what this is growing on the rock in a stream.

Foamflower

Mayapple

Wild Stonecrop

Umbrella Leaf (check out how big the leaf is!)

Violet

I am still so amazed at how green everything is out here.  The rain has been very helpful this spring and it feels almost tropical at the moment!