A beautiful cool Spring morning kept spirits high as about 30 folks explored the banks of Bolin Creek Saturday looking for spring wildflowers. As our guide Dave Otto pointed out the flowers are a bit behind schedule but in the next two weeks we should see some spectacular displays of trout lily, toothwort and some others we observed but were not yet in bloom. We saw all but Rue Anemone and Henbit on Dave Otto’s wildflower list. Wildflower Walk (3-30-13)
We saw Loblolly Pine, Beech, Tulip Poplar and Musclewood trees, and heard some history about Prof Adams and the Adams Tract, as well as about Thomas Lloyd, one of the first settlers who came to Orange County in the 1740’s and obtained a 600-acre land grant from Lord Granville (which the Earnharts have memorialized in the Lloyd-Andrews Historic Farmstead). We were rewarded with the sight of a barred owl high in a cedar tree. 
