This weekend brought the coldest temperatures of the season -- a low of 2 degrees -- but that didn't stop a merry group of friends from journeying into the Georgia mountains for a weekend at the cabin. We hiked Friday and Saturday through beautiful, pristine, national forest, crossed streams and rivers, and enjoyed the natural landscape that a greater power put before us. Our only disappointment was the sight of wooly adelgids on scattered branches of the canadian hemlocks that blanket the forest. Oh, when they go, how different this world will be.
Why don't you take us there when we visit?
ReplyDeleteBut what are "wooly adelgids"?
Will have to take you to a nature preserve a little closer to home. And wooly adelgids are a type of aphid that infest and ultimately kill hemlocks. A pox on them and the plant they rode in on!
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