Forsythias along the trail among the trees
Part of the college beef herd
One of the college pondsIt took a while...a couple months in fact, but I sold my sheep clipper set on Craig's List to a very nice lady, whom we met yesterday in a parking lot in town. Alas we have no more sheep, so I had no more need of them.
Then Alan took me grocery shopping. On the way home we made a side trip we have been wanting to do for a long time to the arboretum and ski lodge at SUNY Cobleskill (which the powers that be, in their infinite wisdom recently closed because of budget cuts. Great asset-short sighted administrators).
He wanted me to know what sassafras smells like. Rumor is that the crushed twig smells like Fruit Loops. However, the article says rootbeer, but I say, just nice...tangy...woodsy, outdoorsy. We brought my twig home, dusted it with rooting hormone and stuck it in a pot. Maybe I will have a sassafras tree in while.The pics are him running up the hill to get the twig and running back down in the rain and cold and miserable that has marked our weather this weekend.
Meanwhile I had a lot of fun and got some rain-darkened photos of the coolest college around. Where else can you find canoes and trout and rare trees and cows and sheep and horses and...and...and greenhouses and streams and so much stuff I want to go back to college just to play with it all?
For more Sunday Stills.....
I wanna go too!!!
ReplyDeleteCool shots. It's very beautiful where you are. Good luck on the sassafrass, I never knew it was a tree.
ReplyDeletelovely photos for this weeks challenge
ReplyDelete`very nice....my son went to Coby in 04&05 it was a very nice place to visit ! I went there quite a bit as he played soccer there......George
ReplyDeleteI always heard that Sassafrass was from a root? I love sassafrass tea. :)
ReplyDeleteI can almost smell the forsythia! Love the tree/water shot, too!
ReplyDeleteLooks like an awesome college!
ReplyDeleteHow sweet that he went up in the rain to pick you a twig! The forsythia are lovely, they are blooming here too.
ReplyDeleteI believe the closings of SUNY Cobleskill's arboretum and ski lodge are but the tip of the iceberg. More to come...
ReplyDeleteYou nailed it with that description of sassafras. I love this tree. Particularly for it's fall foliage.
ReplyDeleteAnd, BTW - that is a fine, handsome young man :0)
P.S. I'm afraid June is right.
Tough all over.
Great shots, glad to see ya'll are getting some color up there..:-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice potluck photos! The forysthia is lovely!
ReplyDeleteAlan to the rescue again! I think Coby is a nice college!
ReplyDeleteI love your Forsythia, ours blooms a little on the bottom and that's it. To cold a climate I guess.
ReplyDeletelol, this is a fun post! I haven't even had sassafras tea! good luck on your sprout!
ReplyDeleteLove the photos, threecollie. And I want to go to Cobleskill! Maybe just to visit though, I'd regret it if I was in a classroom and had homework!
ReplyDeleteDani, it is such a cool place...
ReplyDeleteColleen, the whole campus is landscaped by the students and it is so amazingly beautiful. I love visiting
msw, thanks!
George, I wonder if he met Liz...she was there during part of that time
dibear, I guess you make tea with the root. I am hoping mine grows
Tammy, thanks, I was so lucky to get to visit for a bit even though the weather was nasty
Michelle, like any school there are certain issues, but it has a lot of great programs and a really nice campus
Shirley, I was so tickled. He wanted me to smell it...supposedly it smells like Froot Loops, but to me it is more complex than that
June, I am sure you are right about that. They have closed a lot of other stuff too and ended some popular programs
Cathy, thanks, I am fond of him...even when he breaks the window on the "new" door to the milk house annex. lol like he did last night.
Ed, thanks and me too. My tulips are just starting and the daffs are going strong
Sandy, thanks, such a busy week..I barely got the camera out
Lisa, it took us weeks to get around to getting there...lol
Linda, probably, it sets buds the year before and if it is too cold they freeze. I don't have a forsythia, but I lost a lot of semi hardys this winter...I was just out cleaning up the herb bed and it is pretty sad
Brenda, thanks. I haven't either but maybe someday
Teri, thanks, yeah, I am not so very fond of homework, but there are so many things I still want to learn.