Museum Day Free

Well, the kids are back to school and the newspaper is offering some fun ideas.  In this week's Parade magazine  is an opportunity to get free museum tickets for Saturday, September 29th at a local museum.  Download tickets at www.smithsonian.com/museumday.   

This summer we had some new plant adventures in the woods.  I discovered this Jack in the Pulpit growing wild among the ferns.  I never did see it bloom.  Well, now I know where it is, so maybe next summer.  We also discovered poison sumac, and perhaps a little of poison ivy.  We were diligently clearing the buckthon in our local woods.  We've had poison ivy before but this was much worse.  I think I've identified which plants are poison sumac.  Right now the plant is quite easy to identify because it has white berries.