Walking With Lil & Jordan

 It's great to have Lillian and Jordan with us this weekend and so glad to have their company for an hour or so on a walk along the river. 

Since the last time we walked the trail -- quite a while actually -- the local geocache folks have added a bunch of bollards containing caches. Jordan was not familiar with this activity, so we told him about our few geocaching exploits and about the big annual geocaching weekend that is held in Rome. Naturally of son-in-law, always curious to know about stuff, consulted Mr. Google (or DuckDuck or whatever) and downloaded a geocaching app. On our return walk he found one cache under a rock near the levee. 

Lillian and Jordan have two cats, Waffles (15) and George (8) so we pointed out the grave of Tom Cat along the trail:

Lillian and Jordan sit ion the bench at the trailside grave of Tom Cat near the Mount Berry Trailhead.

As we neared the Little Dry Creek bridge on our return walk I noticed a tree full of berries near the creek. In sandals and pants not meant for bushwhacking I made my way to it and took some pictures. My plant ID app declared it "Possumhaw Holly,"  (Ilex decidua). Maybe

that's right. I'd like to have a couple of these in my yard.

When we got to the railroad bridge and the shelter beneath it we paused for a selfie in indirect lighting. 

In the afternoon we went over to my mother's house where Lillian picked up some of her choices from her grandmother's estate. Then in the evening we visited River Remedy where a charity "chili cook-off" was going on. Good to see several friends. Ty & Caroline were there to eat. James Schroeder was one of the chili cooks. And it was good to see our CRBI friend Amos Tuck and my former fourth grade student and now Australian football enthusiast, Dylan McLaughlin.