This document summarizes the author's observations during a walk through the woods at Chucalissa. It describes various plants seen such as purple flowers, Solomon's seal, and mayapple. It also mentions community gardens including an urban garden maintained by neighborhood members and a Three Sisters garden where families can plant corn, beans and squash. Several structures are noted along the trail including a trail head, a writing desk built by an AmeriCorps team, and a rain shelter also constructed by AmeriCorps volunteers.

1. What I Saw When Walking in the Woods at Chucalissa –
Robert Connolly

2. I
am
taking
a
nature
course
in
a
few
weeks,
cause
all
I
know
is
that
these
are
purple
flowers
in
some
privet
(and
I
am
color-­‐blind,
no
less).

3. Solomon’s
Seal,
or
so
sayeth
the
sign,
in
our
herb
garden.

4. Urban
garden
that
is
planted,
maintained,
and
harvested
by
members
of
the
Westwood
Neighborhood
AssociaFon.

5. Three
Sisters
garden
ready
for
planFng.
On
April
19th
as
part
of
our
Earth
Day
event,
families
are
invited
to
make
a
hill
and
plant,
then
maintain
and
harvest
their
own
hill
of
Three
Sisters
(corn,
beans,
and
squash)
in
the
style
of
the
NaFve
Americans
during
the
prehistoric
era.

6. Trail
head
that
lead’s
into
our
arboretum
and
plant
sanctuary.
This
always
reminds
me
of
the
first
Fme
I
pulled
onto
the
Natchez
Trace
going
north
from
Natchez
Mississippi.
It
was
an
incredibly
hot
day
with
lots
of
traffic
congesFon.
HiSng
the
Trace
was
like
going
down
the
Yellow
Brick
Road
to
Oz.

7. I
like
the
tangle
of
branches,
greens
and
purples
looking
through
an
excavaFon
trench
in
a
residenFal
area
dug
by
the
University
of
Tennessee
in
the
early
1940s.

8. I
asked
Jeremy
from
our
last
AmeriCorps
Team
if
he
could
build
some
sort
of
wriFng
desk
away
from
the
trail
and
behind
a
big
tree.
I
had
in
mind
to
put
a
typewriter
in
the
desk,
assuming
it
would
last
a
few
weeks
before
rusFng
out.
I
like
the
playfulness
and
creaFvity
that
the
desk
invites.

10. The
AmeriCorps
Team
built
this
rain
shelter
(designed
by
Allison)
as
a
place
to
get
out
of
the
rain
or
just
to
sit
and
think.

18. The
next
few
images
are
from
my
favorite
parts
of
the
forest
–
what
I
call
grapevines
and
their
magical
swirls
and
loops
among
the
verFcal
trunks
and
the
green.

21. Mayapple
–
which
grows
in
abundance
throughout
the
forest