Monadnock escapade
Thursday, 5 April 2018
We took the Foot and Droney to a monadnock south of the big monadnock, that is, Stone Mountain. We picnicked just over the crest in this view, in the shade of a pine tree. Just lovely.
Here I am taking the Foot to the summit. We could see the tops of a few of the tallest downtown buildings, and several closer watertowers over the treetops from the high point.
This is Diamorpha smallii.
Everything had a thin dusting of yellow pollen, and we could see a distinct pollen line above the current water levels in the puddles.
We have heard Dr. King talking about a mountain repeatedly over the last few days, so maybe that was part of the motivation. The particular destination was because of glowing reports from neighbors C and D, who visited separately during the last week…and the fact that Diamorpha is blooming.
Now we can say: we have been to the mountain.