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| My classroom garden (luckily the snow is covering the weeds) -------------
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| The nature trail begins |
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| Our outdoor classroom in the snow. |
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| I thought I'd see more tracks. Only rabbits. |
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| Steps toward the back of the school from the brook. |
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| Our second nature trail bridge, an Eagle project by former AES student Carsten Boehm. |
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| Our third bridge, being built now by the vocational academy, will span the brook here so the students can follow the ridge back to the school from the farthest upstream point on campus. |
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| This spot is actually just off campus on the Rudolph Patterson property. |
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| This shelf of fungi on a dead tree provides resting spot for the snow. |
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| On the adjoining Berry property the old railroad bed is smushed up by the lumber trucks and machines, busy even in the snow. |
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| The pond at the old CCC camp is a favorite spot of mine. Fed by springs from Lavendar Mountain this little wetland is home to migrating waterfowl at times. |
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| I like the reflections. |
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| In my defense, I left out several pics of the pond. |
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| I sincerely hope Berry doesn't decide to put a sub-division here some day. -- Tracy S Lawler Unreal looking - nature's beauty at it's best. |
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| I thought it was interesting that the falling flakes show up so prominently in some of the shots. |
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| What is so satisfying about reflections? |
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| The lumbermen stayed busy through the snow. |
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| Two small tributaries collect waters from the slopes of Lavendar Mountain to join our little brook then flow on through the most biologically diverse river system in North America to make its ever wider way to Mobile Bay. |
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| This is one of my class spots along our trail. We call it the Pentepus Tree. The post in the foreground is one of the many numbered station bollards installed as part of an Eagle project by Aaron Martin. Eventually our children will write guidebooks to the trail keyed to these bollards. |
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| My own footprints in the snow near the end of the return trail. |
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| Our first bridge, an Eagle project by former AES student Jesse Crider. The two bridges were financed as part of the Watchable Wildlife grant that we received from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. |
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| I wanted to get this aerial pic of the bridge from the bluff. Bushwhacking through the undergrowth, I ended up with about a gallon of snow down my shirt around the neck. Brrr. |
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| The trail ends up cutting through the new growth Virginia pine to the back campus -- a good spot to teach about forest succession. |
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Comments Carla Byram
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| Wisteria in the snow. |
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| Sheila and the Pruett's Lily. |
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| The neighbor's fig tree. |
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| Our backyard. |
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