Nothing fancy, just a mid-August Sunday outing to the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge with some children. In the spirit of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv, we take the kids out to the wilderness as often as possible so that they might grow up to value natural areas.
The water in Bluff Lake was low, so we were able to walk out among the cypress knees. Saw a bald eagle flying over the lake as we drove in. Not much blooming at the Morgan Hill Overlook, just some mountain mint (white) and partridge pea (yellow in the top picture). They burn that meadow every January, which is too often if you ask me. They should let it grow for three or four years and build up some diversity. In the roadside ditches we saw ironweed and goldenrod. The Callicarpa has berries starting to show some color.
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