Pastor’s Blog

One of the fun outcomes of my sabbatical is learning how to preserve plant specimens, make leaf prints, and just generally mess around in my “herbarium.”  I do marvel at the intricacy of a leaf or a flower and can understand why this…
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Well, the next blog posting will be the last!  I’m back at church on Saturday.  I have to say that the time away has seemed just about right…not too long and not too short.  I do feel energized and while…
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Here we see a reminder that we are not the biggest thing in the forest.  The bear prints were in a muddy stream bed on the Ramble Trail at Caledonia. Pretty neat, really!  This morning I did the Ramble hike…
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This past week, at least the latter part, was a time for walking by cool creeks–not on sunny ridges–that’s for sure.  But the rhododendron is in bloom, which makes it all worthwhile.  I believe that the rhodies we see along…
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Here I am at King’s Gap State Park, hiking with my friend Mary, enjoying a great 5 mile circuit hike of the Hollow trail and Ridge Overlook trail.  One month of sabbatical down, and one month to go.  Hard to believe,…
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Here is Larry being captured by a French Marine at Fort Necessity near Ohiopyle, PA.  The French and Indian war is still being fought out there…although now by talented NPS employees and re-enactors.  This is an era of our history…
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Here is my new best friend-Dryopteris felix-mas, or male fern.  Recently I saw this beautiful cluster of ferns in the mansion garden at King’s Gap.  While the master gardeners who maintain this garden have recently provided wonderful signs identifying both…
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Here I am at the Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia. In the first week of my sabbatical we traveled to Philadelphia, birthplace of religious freedom in America. I arrived 330 years later than did William Penn.   On August…
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