NEW LIFE FOR CHARLIE'S WOODS

        Yesterday, almost fifty wonderful people came to our nature park-in-the-making, "Charlie's Woods". It's next to the historic Charlie Cinnamon Cottage,

in the South Grove where Palmetto Avenue and Plaza Street meet.
 Part of our crew

We were there to toss out the bad plants and replace them with good. Dozens of tree-huggers dug out hundreds of snake plants ("sanseveira") then

gave them the heave-ho. 

   The resulting trash-pile was amazing, reminiscent of the ones we create after hurricanes.

 

    Soon we will replace the exotics with native plants that are good for the environment.  
  
This spot, which had been neglected for years, 

now looks like this.
 Inside the tangled jumble we discovered a gumbo limbo, an oak, and an orange tree.

    There were at least three generations pulling weeds.

    We so appreciate their hard work, and, Jennifer Possley's Connect-to-

Protect group for putting this event together. 
C2P's Jennifer
 

After two hours, with muscles rippling, 




we knocked off, happy to see

 our new park looking better than ever.  
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Sobering thought of the day:

Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?

Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering. 

Ok, just a sobering thought.  We really have screwed things up but some people, like last Saturday's work day crew, give us hope.

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