Made it through my first year with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in South Carolina and looks like I’ll be here at least one more year. FWS is a lot smaller than Forest Service, and it’s been neat learning how things work in an agency whose primary task is protecting imperiled species.
Newberry, my home town about 45 minutes northwest of Columbia, has a wonderful Opera House with an amazing diversity of shows, though I still miss Marlinton’s Opera House and the community in WV, Greensboro, and other places that hold old friends.
An extra special part of SC has been exploring beautiful places with wonderful naturalist, native plant, and bird folks. And in August I got to visit an extraordinary bog in AL with an artist friend. We went to see white-topped pitcher plants under the full moon per suggestion by a beloved native plantsman in NC.
Wild Bee Plantings 