tea at "the branch"
The weather guys predicted a stunningly beautiful day.  In anticipation of that I packed a bag with jeans, hiking boots, and a sweatshirt.  I also added my yellow tea pot, a tin of green tea, my favorite cup and saucer and a thermos of boiling water.  The plan was to check out my land after I finished worship.

Turns out the weather guys got this one right.  After worship I headed for Wildbranch, parked and put on my hiking boots.  Dragged my tea things, the folding camp chair and the camera and headed up to where the house is going to be located.  Enjoyed my tea and the quiet.  Explored the area where I want to put in the orchard and discovered a small dry creek on the edge of the property that had some run off in it.  The 94 year old uncle of one of my parishioners is very skilled in finding ginseng in the wild.  If the weather holds, next Sunday I'm going to invite him to go exploring with me to show me what it looks like.  I'm hoping I'll find trillium (jack in the pulpit)  and other early spring flowers soon.

After a couple of hours of hanging out at Wildbranch, I headed to Corydon to do my nursing home visits.  On the way I passed a one room school house, a beautiful farm and a woman named Kyle on a horse named Mary.  The high today was 59F--didn't need my sweatshirt.  Our January thaw is finally here.  This is good.  It means that the builder should be able to get started soon!  In the mean time, I'm studying fruit tree varieties and finding out where the orchards are in the area so I can go visit and learn.