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Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Unloading Matt's nearly impossibly full truck. Matt and I carpooled up from Houston, so we had to get all of our stuff in the same vehicle. I can't believe we fit it all in there.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Missoula In Motion (MIM) exists to promote sustainable alternatives to one person - one car commuting. Not wanting to admonish people for driving, MIM was looking instead to encourage them to change their behavior and use sustainable transportation just one day a week. Our "See Commuting Differently" campaign has helped them get scores of new people to take to bikes, carpooling, buses, walking and vanpools. Bus ridership alone has risen 16% since the campaign began, membership in MIM's member log on group, the Way To Go! Club, has grown exponentially and visits to the website have nearly doubled.
Apparently, dogs are carpooling too now. This car filled with SIX dogs was parked outside the little supermarket in Pacific City, OR.
I never did see the person or persons who arrived (presumably) in this car, unfortunately.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
It definitely was a strange day. I put out a request to carpool to an event in the city tonight, on a list I read, and thought maybe some folks who know me and might want to go to the event would respond. Instead I had emails and phonecalls from 5 perfect strangers and 1 person I met briefly a couple of weeks ago. Plus an old boyfriend who still reads the list, even though he isn't local anymore, started corresponding with me. We volleyed emails at each other all day, with fond memories and sweet compliments. What fun. And what a whirlwind of unexpected social interaction. Sure feels like 'ask, and you shall receive." I did carpool to the city and back with a stranger, bumped into some old acquaintances, and met some new folks too. It was all so unusual and unexpected. But hey, I'm not complaining. Just taking notes, so I can make it happen some more. :-) The theme of the event/lecture is that we don't even know our own potential. I think I at least get that I do have a lot of untapped potential. Sure of it in fact. And boy was this carpooling request an exercise in manifesting some of that potential. Phew!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Zack and I are carpooling to work in Jacksonville while I'm in training. This gives me an hour or two of exploration while waiting for him to finish. I've spent a lot of time driving... scouting out photog locations, and wondering where I'll park should I actually return to shoot there.
The sky has been gorgeous lately -- vivid blue with white puffy cumulus clouds when it's sunny, with a visible transformation into stormy weather in the late afternoons. I've been wanting to snap a shot showing a reflection of the sunny scene on the windows of a skyscraper... preferably with a blue sky and matching clouds floating in the actual background. I haven't found that scene yet. Today I toyed with the Modis building a few blocks from its base, but I didn't have the time, tripod, or proper weather conditions for an ideal shot. On my way to pick up Zack, I drove over the Main Street Bridge and accidentally exited onto Main Street, which collects commuters from the area before reconnecting with the highway. I stopped at the first traffic light to find my subject from Day 153 to my left and a potential Day 231 scene to my right. The Prudential Building architects must have planned this skyscraper with the intention of creating a scene for drivers coming from various directions. From my position, the building's windows displayed a warped reflection of Riverplace Tower. My camera was conveniently accessible, empowering me to capture the scene through my car's windshield before the traffic light changed.
My name is Audrey, I’ve been playing violin for a long time, and I like penguins. I am in seventh grade this year at the Meadowbrook School of Weston. I took a picture of a deciduous tree that still had leaves on it covered in snow. I focused on the issue of climate change. As the world is gradually getting warmer, the water levels are rising, and if all the ice melted, the water levels would rise by 200 feet, changing the coastline, and rendering many people homeless. This winter, over two dozen people in a swath of land from North Carolina to New York died because of the extreme cold. The climate changes also affect wildlife and living things in nature, with the winter cold stunning over 100 sea turtles in Florida. Temperatures are also rising during warmer seasons, with the summer of 2016 setting near-record heat in the U.S., and especially in the Northeast, which is where I live. Statistics show that over the past century, the average temperature of the Earth has increased by 1.33ºF, and 0.72ºF of that has occured since 1979. It is not necessarily the small things that affect the change in climate, but when they are all added up, that is what is affecting the world. I took the picture from underneath the branches, facing upwards, to show that if we look at the big picture we can see the effect humans are having on the world. I focused on the leaves of fall with a clump of snow on them, showing how the fluctuations in weather left the most cyclic things, like trees, unprepared. The picture is mostly blurred out, focusing on only one small bits, making the viewer feel the wrongness of it. I like how my photo captures the starkness of the difference between the colors of the tree and the snow. I can take a step to help this cause by trying to reduce my carbon footprint and helping others do that as well. Doing things like carpooling, avoiding traffic, which adds to the CO2 levels, and not traveling everywhere by car can help. Even doing smaller things like turning off lights, recycling, and eating organic foods can help.
Missoula In Motion (MIM) exists to promote sustainable alternatives to one person - one car commuting. Not wanting to admonish people for driving, MIM was looking instead to encourage them to change their behavior and use sustainable transportation just one day a week. Our "See Commuting Differently" campaign has helped them get scores of new people to take to bikes, carpooling, buses, walking and vanpools. Bus ridership alone has risen 16% since the campaign began, membership in MIM's member log on group, the Way To Go! Club, has grown exponentially and visits to the website have nearly doubled.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Missoula In Motion (MIM) exists to promote sustainable alternatives to one person - one car commuting. Not wanting to admonish people for driving, MIM was looking instead to encourage them to change their behavior and use sustainable transportation just one day a week. Our "See Commuting Differently" campaign has helped them get scores of new people to take to bikes, carpooling, buses, walking and vanpools. Bus ridership alone has risen 16% since the campaign began, membership in MIM's member log on group, the Way To Go! Club, has grown exponentially and visits to the website have nearly doubled.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Missoula In Motion (MIM) exists to promote sustainable alternatives to one person - one car commuting. Not wanting to admonish people for driving, MIM was looking instead to encourage them to change their behavior and use sustainable transportation just one day a week. Our "See Commuting Differently" campaign has helped them get scores of new people to take to bikes, carpooling, buses, walking and vanpools. Bus ridership alone has risen 16% since the campaign began, membership in MIM's member log on group, the Way To Go! Club, has grown exponentially and visits to the website have nearly doubled.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
following that damn feather around again. and finally getting the file on my desktop cleared out. thanks for humoring my obsession. Hope everybody's having a good weekend. I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone's streams.
Care More, Car-Less is an Earth Ministry program aimed at mobilizing faith communities to reduce the number of single occupant vehicles and to encourage advocacy and environmental stewardship. These images are from a Care More, Car-Less Sunday at Fauntleroy First United Church of Christ on October 12th, 2014. They highlight church members walking, biking and carpooling as well as a "Blessing of the Travelers" portion of the service. Images copyright Kristie McLean.
Unloading Matt's nearly impossibly full truck. Matt and I carpooled up from Houston, so we had to get all of our stuff in the same vehicle. I can't believe we fit it all in there.
Just when you think you have the cool shot, some other photographer is already there.
Actually this is jlv3
...and we carpooled. :)
Hi all,
Here are a couple of photos -
Rachel Kanz and her two children, Micah and Ellie. Rachel is a teacher
at Richmond Consolidated School in Richmond, Massachusetts. Here they
are with Bruce Winn and Jeff Turner from Berkshire Environmental Action
Team (BEAT), a non-profit protecting the environment for wildlife, also
from Massachusetts.
#3 - Gathering at the Lincoln Memorial for the Massachusetts contingent
before the rally - Massachusetts had about 550 people who came down on
buses - not to mention those who carpooled and drove down.
#25 - Bruce Winn and Ceacy Henderson at the end of the march.
#12 - BEAT banner at the start of the rally.
Thank you all for all you did to make a great rally!!!!
/Jane/
--
Jane Winn, Executive Director
413-442-6815 home/office, 413-230-7321 cell
*BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM (BEAT)
*/*Working with you to protect the environment for wildlife
*/BEAT, 27 Highland Ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201-2413 www.thebeatnews.org
*
FREE weekly e-newsletter *with environmental news, calendar of events,
and public notices for western MA.
Hi all,
Here are a couple of photos -
Rachel Kanz and her two children, Micah and Ellie. Rachel is a teacher
at Richmond Consolidated School in Richmond, Massachusetts. Here they
are with Bruce Winn and Jeff Turner from Berkshire Environmental Action
Team (BEAT), a non-profit protecting the environment for wildlife, also
from Massachusetts.
#3 - Gathering at the Lincoln Memorial for the Massachusetts contingent
before the rally - Massachusetts had about 550 people who came down on
buses - not to mention those who carpooled and drove down.
#25 - Bruce Winn and Ceacy Henderson at the end of the march.
#12 - BEAT banner at the start of the rally.
Thank you all for all you did to make a great rally!!!!
/Jane/
--
Jane Winn, Executive Director
413-442-6815 home/office, 413-230-7321 cell
*BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM (BEAT)
*/*Working with you to protect the environment for wildlife
*/BEAT, 27 Highland Ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201-2413 www.thebeatnews.org
*
FREE weekly e-newsletter *with environmental news, calendar of events,
and public notices for western MA.
Carpooling
(Kinda inspired by Alejandro Cartagena work)
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This morning, it's back to posting 10 more photos of fungi from our visit to Rod Handfield's acreage. I think these may be the last few odds and ends that I will be adding from this trip. Sorry about the lack of IDs for so many of the fungi, but at least I have made a photo record of many of the species seen.
On that day, 8 September 2019, we had such a wonderful four and a half hours, searching for different kinds of fungi in the amazing forest on Rod Handfield's land, SW of Calgary. I think this was our tenth visit - the first one I went on, being on 25 June 2009 - each one resulting in various different species. It was so overwhelming this day! You didn't know which direction to face and which mushroom to photograph first. They were everywhere! Such a contrast to our visit on 6 August 2017, when basically there were no mushrooms (other than maybe three), because everywhere had been so very dry.
A day like this can be so exhausting, not just from the walking, but also because of all the excitement. That night, I slept well. The quality of many of my photos is not the best, as the day was very overcast - the last thing one wants when trying to take photos deep in the forest. After leaving Rod's, it did rain. I had driven myself there instead of carpooling, so that I could drive some of the backroads in the area after we had finished. The forecast was for sun and cloud - and I had foolishly believed it. The rain put an end to my plans and I headed for home. I'm so glad I had checked a special little spot near Rod's first thing in the morning, when I got there a bit too early. A few years ago, there was a beautiful display of Fly Agaric / Amanita muscaria mushrooms growing there, but not since then. To my absolute delight, there were maybe half a dozen, in different stages of development. Surprisingly, we didn't come across a single one in Rod's forest this year.
As always, thank you so much, Rod, for so generously allowing us to explore your property. This has been my favourite place to visit for quite a number of years now. We greatly appreciate your kindness - you are always so welcoming, and we learn so much and discover so many beautiful things. Thank you, Karel, for leading the group and helping with some of the identifications. For the rest, "fungus" or "mushroom"will have to be sufficient. As usual, any IDs given are always tentative, not 100% confirmed. Rule is, if you are not an expert in mycology, do not pick wild mushrooms to eat!