Bringing Nature Inside

On this hot and humid day, two members of the Grounds Committee took the residents of Gwynedd and Abington House on an indoor "nature walk".

Items from all over our campus were collected, labelled, and put on paper plates.  The residents then sat around the table and the plates were passed around. and lively conversation ensued. 

We talked about trees feeding squirrels and other animals with their buts.

We admired some of nature's most elegant flowers.

Do you know residents still collect crab apples for jelly?

Goldenrod has just started to bloom.

Red Bud bloomed in the Spring and now has seed pods.

Queen Anne's Lace is found everywhere.  

Black-eyed Susan takes you back to your childhood.

And a look-alike, but this thin-leaved coneflower can grow to four feet.