This was our first time out together in months, and her next birthday the world will consider her an adult... so I made it as long of a day as I could. A day that started out with coffee around noon and a ride to Snoopers Rock. A day that wound it's way through a mix of photography sessions, fire-crafting practice, toxic plants identification, tasting wild edibles, dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, dessert and coffee at our favorite coffee house, and a night excursion for low light photos to top off the day. Sarah is taking a photography class and had a project to do on landscapes and cityscapes so that's just what we did yesterday. She expected me to cancel out on her because about 8:00 am it started raining and rained for a few hours. I told her we were going anyway and salvage what we could of the day. As it turned out it didn't rain any more after 11:00, and turned out to be a great day out.
We started out the project on Snoopers Rock up at Prentice Cooper.
On the walk back to the truck we stopped because I wanted to see if she could still get a fire started in wet conditions like I had taught her. She did good, I was proud of her.
Then she was checking out my machete. Like me, she likes it a lot better than my old Ontario.
After that we rode over to a series of fields I like to walk through to check out the scenery. I thought it would be good to get in some plant ID with her while we were out.
We found some persimmons. The only ones I could shake out of the tree didn't look the greatest, but didn't taste bad at all to me. Sarah compared them to a mix of pumpkins and bananas...
We found a good bit of one of the nightshades...I can never remember the name of this one.
The thorn apples are busting open.
There were lots of Autumn Olives around.
She got to try Ocoee for the first time.
Something had torn into the hornet's nest I found back in the summer, and it looked like it had eaten the larvae.
By this time the sun was starting down and we had been out in the chilling damp for hours. We went to Pannera Bread for hot soup (no pics, too busy talking) and then on up to Rembrandt's for coffee and desert and then walked over to the walking bridge for some night shots.
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We started out the project on Snoopers Rock up at Prentice Cooper.
On the walk back to the truck we stopped because I wanted to see if she could still get a fire started in wet conditions like I had taught her. She did good, I was proud of her.
Then she was checking out my machete. Like me, she likes it a lot better than my old Ontario.
After that we rode over to a series of fields I like to walk through to check out the scenery. I thought it would be good to get in some plant ID with her while we were out.
We found some persimmons. The only ones I could shake out of the tree didn't look the greatest, but didn't taste bad at all to me. Sarah compared them to a mix of pumpkins and bananas...
We found a good bit of one of the nightshades...I can never remember the name of this one.
The thorn apples are busting open.
There were lots of Autumn Olives around.
She got to try Ocoee for the first time.
Something had torn into the hornet's nest I found back in the summer, and it looked like it had eaten the larvae.
By this time the sun was starting down and we had been out in the chilling damp for hours. We went to Pannera Bread for hot soup (no pics, too busy talking) and then on up to Rembrandt's for coffee and desert and then walked over to the walking bridge for some night shots.
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