Hi -

Just thought I'd wish a Happy New Year to all - and send along this link
that someone recently sent me.

http://environment.independent.co.uk/nature/article3286813.ece

I just noticed the HCC has a little page about the dedication of the
garden: http://www.mdflora.org/worthleygarden_update.html

Also - I recently discovered a guy called the Lion Whisperer. There
are a number of videos of him with the lions at YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWHvdTye5g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67e2qJEDrs&feature=related

--Kathy

Who cares??????????????

I will be out of the office starting  11/19/2007 and will not return until
12/07/2007.

I will respond to your message when I return.

Reminder - the topic of the next class on December 1 is Corn and Jean has
asked that you read the chapter on corn from the Michael Pollan book, . I
found that it is available online from his website.
http://michaelpollan.com/omnivore_excerpt.pdf

I also just heard an interview on the radio with the makers of a new
documentary called "King Corn" today on Bob Edwards Weekend, however - it
seems the show is not archived.  But here is the website of the film:
http://www.kingcorn.net/ Pollan is listed as someone who is in the movie.

--Kathy

Yep. I agree. I sent the message without having looked at the attached
picture closely. The exotic cynanchums do not have the lobed leaf bases
like those shown in the photo.




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                       10/30/2007 09:07 PM
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I'll still go with Cynanchum laeve. The two exotic swallowworts don't fit
vegetatively. Look at the eared basal lobes.

-- Ed


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Kathy,

In case someone else hasn't mentioned this, it could be one of the 2 exotic
Cynanchums. Check out fact sheets at:

Black Swallow-wort      http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/cylo1.htm
Pale Swallow-wort       http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/cyro1.htm

Thanks,

Jil



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Hi -

Someone in Harpers Ferry has a vine growing on her property that she asked
me about. The leaves looked to me like those of Cynanchum laeve. I
didn't see any sign of flowers. What I'm wondering is whether anyone
knows of other opposite-leaved vines with a similar leaf that might be
another possibility ? The WV flora does say it's found along the
Shenandoah River in Jefferson County. (She's way up on the hill.)

There's an image of a piece of the vine at:

http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/janetsvine.jpg

--Kathy

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To: WorthleyBotany@yahoogroups.com
From: edcohenfam@...
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:54:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [WorthleyBotany] any other vine similar to Cynanchum laeve?

Dear Joe,

I know that you're the local expert on these plants, but wouldn't you agree that vegetatively this plant looks just like Cynanchum laeve rather than Matelea obliqua? So circumstantial evidence would point to the former rather than the latter.

-- Ed


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Thnaks for comments about the Harpers Ferry plant.  I did see online
mention of the milky sap present in the C. laeve. The leaves are not a
simple heart shape - but have a flattened area where the petiole attaches
- and look a bit auriculate.  I'll suggest to Janet that she check for the
milky sap.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VA-MD-DE-Bugs/message/3305 Details info
about an Eastern North American Bee Identification Workshop - Dec. 10-14
2007.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

American Conservation Film Festival in Shepherdstown Nov. 1-4
http://www.conservationfilm.org/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

There was a message from CHeryl Jennings, who is active in the WV Master
Naturalists program,  in another Yahoo group, WestVirginiaNaturalHistory
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestVirginiaNaturalHistory) about a blog
that might be of interest to some:

While looking for citizen science projects I came across nice
naturalist blog by Marcia Bonta. I have read her nature journals and
enjoyed them a lot . Her blog is equally as interesting. She has
written two books on women naturalist that I ordered and will enjoy
reading this winter when I am snowed in. I'm not sure how often she
writes but it looks like she has been at this blog thing for quite
some time so we shouldn't run out of interesting things from her. I
have only read the one on beetles and found it fun. She lives in
Pennsylvania so we share some of the same habitat.

She also has some other good links to citizen science projects.

So here is the blog site:

http://marciabonta.wordpress.com/
Marcia Bonta, Naturalist Writer

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To: WorthleyBotany@yahoogroups.com
From: kathy@...
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:08:14 -0400
Subject: [WorthleyBotany] any other vine similar to Cynanchum laeve?

Hi -

Someone in Harpers Ferry has a vine growing on her property that she asked
me about. The leaves looked to me like those of Cynanchum laeve. I
didn't see any sign of flowers. What I'm wondering is whether anyone
knows of other opposite-leaved vines with a similar leaf that might be
another possibility ? The WV flora does say it's found along the
Shenandoah River in Jefferson County. (She's way up on the hill.)

There's an image of a piece of the vine at:

http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/janetsvine.jpg

--Kathy

---

To: WorthleyBotany@yahoogroups.com
From: kathy@...
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:08:14 -0400
Subject: [WorthleyBotany] any other vine similar to Cynanchum laeve?

Hi -

Someone in Harpers Ferry has a vine growing on her property that she asked
me about. The leaves looked to me like those of Cynanchum laeve. I
didn't see any sign of flowers. What I'm wondering is whether anyone
knows of other opposite-leaved vines with a similar leaf that might be
another possibility ? The WV flora does say it's found along the
Shenandoah River in Jefferson County. (She's way up on the hill.)

There's an image of a piece of the vine at:

http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/janetsvine.jpg

--Kathy

Hi -

Someone in Harpers Ferry has a vine growing on her property that she asked
me about.  The leaves looked to me like those of Cynanchum laeve.  I
didn't see any sign of flowers.  What I'm wondering is whether anyone
knows of other opposite-leaved vines with a similar leaf that might be
another possibility ?  The WV flora does say it's found along the
Shenandoah River in Jefferson County.  (She's way up on the hill.)

There's an image of a piece of the vine at:

http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/janetsvine.jpg

--Kathy

This email was from the Park Manager at Patapsco Valley State Park:

-----Original Message-----
Subject: VMP news: Wavyleaf Basketgrass web posting

Hi All,

please read email below and click on the link <http://
www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/wl_basketgrass.asp> to learn how to
identify this invasive species.  If  you see any while you are out and
about, please report it (info on web) and note it in your patrol log.
Thanks!!!

Brenda

Begin forwarded message:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melton, Robin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:01 PM
> To: Vogelpohl, Joe; Brooks, Chris; Chrest, David; Czarra,
> Christopher; Cottrell, Alvin; Cutcher, Dennis; Dyke, Rob;
> Fischbach, David; Harris, Rodney; McAllister, Joe; Martin, Larry;
> Lee, LaJuan; Lutsko, Amy; Scales and Tales; Lovely, Melodi; Rinta,
> Andy; State Park, Patapsco; STATE PARK, SOLDIERS DELIGHT; Thomas,
> Brian
> Subject: FW: Wavyleaf Basketgrass web posting
>
>
> See the link below, as this grass exists in Patapsco you need to be
> aware of how it is spread and what it looks like  - it is important
> that we report any additional sightings of this grass to Wildlife
> and Heritage.  It is also important that we avoid scheduling any
> activities that could travel in areas infested with this grass -
> i.e. SAR training, horseback riding events etc.   We should also
> make sure our clean-up is good when we are working in or near this
> grass.   VMP's should receive this information so they can note any
> additional locations that they find this grass.etc.
>
>
> Robin S. Melton
>
> Park Manager
>
> Patapsco Valley State Park
>
> Soldiers Delight NEA
>
> Morgan Run NEA
>
> 410-461-5005
>
> Fax: 410-418-9750

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message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent
responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient,
you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or
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received this communication in error, please notify First Data
immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your
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----- Original Message -----

From: Kathy Bilton

To: WorthleyBotany@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:50 AM

Subject: [WorthleyBotany] new schedule online

Hi -

I've just posted the new WBC schedule that Jean sent me.

http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/wbc.html

The topic for Dec. 1 is Corn and Jean has asked that you read the chapter
on corn from the Michael Pollan book. I found that it is available online
from his website. http://michaelpollan.com/omnivore_excerpt.pdf

I recently discovered info about the explosive nature of Cornus canadensis
seeds. I thought it was a relatively new discovery but looking it up onle
I found this article from BEN back in 1998, adapted from a 1985 article:
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben194.html

--Kathy

Jil wanted this message to go out to the WBC:


Drs. Mario Morales (Director, Medicinal Botanicals Program) and Joyce
Foster (Research Biochemist, USDA, Agricultural Research Service) are
seeking volunteers to help collect groundnut
(Apios americana) seed pods and tubers.  Groundnut is native to the eastern
region of the USA and is being looked at for its good nutritional value and
possible use as forage for domesticated animals!  See attached flyers and
contact info, below.

-Patricia

Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist - Division of Scientific Authority
Chair - Plant Conservation Alliance - Medicinal Plant Working Group
US Fish & Wildlife Service
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 750
Arlington, VA  22203
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                Field Collection of Apios americana (groundnut)


DESCRIPTION: Apios americana, groundnut, is a slender, climbing, perennial
native counter-clockwise twining vine 1 to 6 meters in length with
alternate, odd-pinnately compound leaves that may consist of 3-9 pointed
ovate leaflets, but typically five to seven leaflets, that are usually 2.5
to 7.5 cm. in length. Apios flowers are rather large, numerous, usually
pink to purplish or brownish-purple-red and fragrant. Flowers are usually
about 12 millimeters long and occur in compact racemes 75 to 130
millimeters long. The flowers are distinct in having a relatively large
concave standard with a small hood at its apex into which the narrow-sickle
shaped keel is hooked. Flowering occurs from July to September and the
resulting seed is a many seeded linear legume pod 5 to 11 cm. long. When
supporting vegetation is available, Apios may climb to a height of 2 m.
Tubers are produced near the soil surface on rhizomes. Rhizomes may extend
to a length of 2 meters or greater and several tubers may be produced along
the length of the rhizome similar to a “string of pearls”. The photographs
below should assist with proper field identification.

                  Typical Apios americana foliage and flower
           [Had to be deleted as the file size was too large; \see:
        http://www.mountainstate.edu/usda/newsletters/PDF/08-2007.pdf]


          Line drawing of typical Apios americana, groundnut, tubers


[Had to be deleted as the file size was too large; contact John Vandevender
                                  for info.]


WHERE USUALLY FOUND: Apios americana is distributed in eastern North
America from southern Florida to Nova Scotia west through southern Canada
to southeastern Manitoba, southwest to eastern Colorado and south to
southern Texas. The primary habitat for Apios is in wet soils along creeks,
rivers and lakes, where it may often form dense colonies. Please refer to
the attached PLANTS Database generated state maps for the known county
level distribution of Apios.  Individual state maps which illustrate the
known distribution of Apios by county are available at:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=APAM&photoID=apam_003_ahp.tif


Reminders:  Obtain landowner's permission to collect from private property.
Obtain a permit to collect on Forest Service land.  No collecting is
allowed on Park Service land.  Some states have specific regulations
regarding the collection of native plants material, so please check with
the Dept. of Natural Resources or Dept. of Agriculture, whichever entity
handles plants in your state, before collecting.


WHAT TO COLLECT: Collect 2 to 3 foot sections of rhizome with attached
tubers from at least 10 plants throughout the colony, but do not deplete
the stand’s potential for continued regeneration. Also, collect enough stem
and leaf material to fill a quart sized plastic storage bag. If available,
include a quantity of mature seed pods (up to 20 pods per collection).
Collect enough soil to fill a second quart sized plastic bag from each
site. Complete an NRCS-ECS-580 Plant Collection Form and the supplemental
observed traits sheet for each collection made. Include GPS coordinates for
the collection site, where feasible, and provide good directions on how to
find the site, so someone unfamiliar with the area could locate the
collection site, if needed. Write these directions on the back of the
NRCS-ECS-580 Form.


WHEN TO COLLECT: Collect rhizomes, vegetative material and soil only after
positively identifying the plant. This means that collections should be
made mid to late summer or early fall. Dormant rhizome and tuber
collections may be requested at a future date.


HOW TO HANDLE COLLECTION: Wrap the collected vegetative material in plastic
(a suitable sized plastic bag will suffice) with a few (2-3) moistened
paper towels and place all collected materials and the completed collection
form in a box for shipping.  Contact Joyce G. Foster, USDA, ARS,
Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center, 304-256-2809,
joyce.foster@...,gov to obtain a FedEx account number.  Ship materials
by FedEx for NEXT DAY DELIVERY to:


John Vandevender


USDA-NRCS


Alderson Plant Materials Center


Old Prison Farm Road, County Route 3/29


   Alderson, WV 24910


304-445-3005


John.Vandevender@...

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Dr. Joyce G. Foster
Research Biochemist
USDA, Agricultural Research Service
Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center
1224 Airport Road
Beaver, WV  25813-9423
Voice: (304) 256-2809
Fax:  (304) 256-2921
E-mail:  Joyce.Foster@...

Dr. Mario R. Morales, Director
Medicinal Botanicals Program
Mountain State University
P.O. Box 9003
Beckley, WV 25802-9003

Hi -

I've just posted the new WBC schedule that Jean sent me.

http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/wbc.html

The topic for Dec. 1 is Corn and Jean has asked that you read the chapter
on corn from the Michael Pollan book.  I found that it is available online
from his website.  http://michaelpollan.com/omnivore_excerpt.pdf


I recently discovered info about the explosive nature of Cornus canadensis
seeds.  I thought it was a relatively new discovery but looking it up onle
I found this article from BEN  back in 1998, adapted from a 1985 article:
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben194.html

--Kathy

Just to let you know about this October 6th event.

Location: http://www.hcconservancy.org/Directions.htm

SPECIAL EVENT The Maryland Native Plant Society made a donation for a warm
season grassland in the Howard County Conservancy's Honor's Garden
celebrating the work of Jean and Elmer Worthley. The grassland has been
seeded and we are planning to dedicate it to Jean Worthley this fall as
part of our yearly fall festival.  Jean has agreed to be our guest of
honor. The Fall Festival is Saturday, October 6th from 1-5 p.m. with a
dedication ceremony for the grassland schedule for 2:00.  We are planning
a fun filled afternoon for families with artisans demonstrating weaving,
spinning, quilting, blacksmithing, musicians, a small native plant sale
plus more.  We were wondering if the Native Plant Society would like to
participate and if you could include this event in you next newsletter?
I would be glad to fill you in with more details as the deadline for you
newsletter approaches. Members of the Maryland Native Plant Society are
invited to contribute (and actually plant) native plants from their own
garden as part of this dedication. For information: Marianne Pettis; The
Howard County Conservancy; 410-465-8877

If you go to the page the article is on -
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bal-to.missjean07jun07,1,5179959.\
story
- you can see a video.  You will likely have to register on the site to
see it - but it only takes a moment.

Heard about this article thanks to Jody.

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                                       A natural honor

A new children's TV award is named for 'Miss Jean' Worthley, whose 'Hodgepodge
Lodge' taught a generation about conservation
By Rob Hiaasen
Sun reporter
June 7, 2007

At 82, Jean Worthley occasionally drives by the old lodge to show the grandkids
where their grandmother once worked. The lodge still stands, behind the Maryland
Public Television building, although there is no hodge or podge - just creeping
wineberries and Canada thistle, as identified by the zoologist and former TV
host
known as "Miss Jean."

>From 1970 to 1977, Worthley was the maternal host of a children's program on
MPT
called The Hodgepodge Lodge that aired weekday afternoons on Channel 67. Her
children and botanist husband would often guest star - as well as pairs of local
children who appeared regularly on her nature program, which was syndicated
mainly
on the East Coast.

Thirty years later, it's time for a curtain call.

Her former station has created an award in her honor. Kevin Clash, the Baltimore
native behind Sesame Street's Elmo, will be the first recipient of the 'Miss
Jean'
Worthley Award for Service to Families and Children. MPT's Vision Honors Banquet
will be held Saturday at the Tremont Grand. Clash will be there, as will the
award's namesake and most of her six grown children and four grandchildren.

"I loved Miss Jean's show. I thought it was sweet and wonderful," says Clash,
46.
"She was very Mother-Naturish, which made her different than Mister Rogers and
his
make-believe. She was dealing with the environment already, which was
wonderful."

Clash kind of wishes the banquet was at the lodge, where he could have his
picture
taken with Miss Jean. He has never forgotten her or the show's contagious theme
song.

"We're off to the forest to see Miss Jean," jingled the opening song. As
deliberate and placid as Mister Rogers, Miss Jean would welcome her young
audience
each day to her lodge and to the "Discovery Table," where a snake, turtle,
rabbit
or mole would be freed from her gunnysack. Almost every animal would appear.
"Well, maybe not elephants," a boy named Brig Berney would recite while hanging
upside down from a tree.

Her show wasn't just a televised petting zoo. There were field trips, tips on
starting 4-H clubs and gentle reminders on caring for the environment. The show
wasn't live; it just felt like it. A chain saw in the neighborhood halted
filming
once. There would be the occasional animal with stomach problems. A rooster
might
be on the loose. A week-old calf might shake loose from its halter.

And her parrot, Aurora, was always by Miss Jean's side - or rather on her
shoulder. (Lived to be 38, that parrot. A female, it turned out.) To close each
show, Miss Jean gave her "Queen Victoria" wave and asked children to "come back
soon" to the Hodgepodge Lodge. The final credit read: "Have Fun With Nature."

After some 800, 28-minute-and-50-second shows on the back lot of MPT, Worthley -
a
former Episcopalian schoolteacher turned unlikely TV personality - hung up her
gunnysack in 1977. It wasn't about ratings or money. It was just time.

With her new hip and older Subaru wagon (bumper sticker: "Have you hugged a
Turtle
Today?"), Worthley dropped by the Hodgepodge Lodge this week. Some 30 years
later,
the station has never had the will nor heart to take down the set. A 1970s
photograph of Miss Jean hangs on the lodge's front door. For the camera, Miss
Jean's hair would be up in a barrette. She never used much makeup. The crew
pinned
a picture of a smiling Campbell's soup kid on the camera to remind the host to
smile.

Today, her hair is up, but she doesn't need a reminder to smile. Her laugh
hasn't
lost a step, nor has she lost her natural curiosity. Her leg is just sore from
walking on the new hip. Someone brings her a chair.

"It's nice to finally meet you," says Michael Golden, MPT's communications
director.

"Well, it's nice to be finally recognized after all these years," Worthley says.

Someone has a question.

"There are ants taking over an oak tree at my in-law's house. There's a lot of
sawdust," says her former fill-in director, George Beneman, the station's vice
president of technology. "Are the ants killing the tree?"

"Probably," says Miss Jean.

Another nature question.

"Do bullfrogs eat green frogs? I think bullfrogs are eating my green frogs,"
Beneman says.

Worthley says she does not believe bullfrogs eat green frogs.

Had anyone known she would be fielding questions, maybe the station could have
set
up a camera and recorded a reunion episode of The Hodgepodge Lodge. Miss Jean
would be ready to go. She would just need a couple of kids who, as Worthley said
back in the day, "would not run away with the show with their long stories."
Then,
there was the rare kid who would become speechless. Twenty-eight minutes and 50
seconds was a "long time to hold forth by yourself," as Worthley recalls.

Beginnings are often more interesting than endings, and Worthley's start in
local
children's programming is no exception. Her family had a 114-acre farm (dairy
cows, workhorses, ducks, sheep) in the field just beyond MPT's parking lot. In
1969, MPT began building a studio by it.

"My mother and I saw this tower rising up over here, so we climbed under the
fence," says Worthley, who later moved to an 18-acre, two-pond farm in
Finksburg.

At the time, she thought maybe she could answer phones at the new studio, but
her
reputation as a kindergarten teacher and nature lover had preceded her. A
television producer approached her about a nature show for children. After weeks
of planning and settling on the name (rejected: Miss Jean: Forest Detective),
The
Hodgepodge Lodge debuted in January 1970. She was 45.

Weather-permitting, they recorded at the lodge. When it rained, they used the
inside set in Studio A. The budget was nominal - the kids got a stipend and free
cookies, and the host made more than she did when teaching half-days at a church
school. Worthley's career highlight came in 1975 when she appeared on Mister
Rogers' Neighborhood. In the episode, she taught Fred Rogers how to make a
terrarium. She had earlier tried to get Rogers to come to Baltimore, but he
passed
on appearing on The Hodgepodge Lodge.

In 1977, the program ended, but it aired another two years in reruns. There was
no
farewell show.

"It was a wonderful chapter in my life," Worthley says. "I felt like I was
Cinderella - jumping from a kindergarten teacher to TV."

Worthley's grown viewers - some of whom became ecology majors, Audubon Society
members or television producers - e-mail or call her still. Her husband, Elmer,
passed away in 1991 on their 43rd wedding anniversary, but she still organizes
the
Worthley Botany Class he started. And she has her farm, a sort of lodge in
itself.

Jean Worthley can be found in her work clothes patrolling her blueberry patch,
where beavers have been feasting. She can be seen crawling on the ground,
cutting
back Japanese honeysuckle that's also invading her blueberries. Or, she might be
enjoying the sight of that 5-foot black snake that's been around or her new
favorite wildflower - a blue-eyed Mary.

Miss Jean is still having fun with nature.

________________________________________________________________________________\
_________
MPT Vision Honors

Clarisse Barron Mechanic Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts:

* The Rosenberg Family, represented by Henry Rosenberg and Ruth Marder, for its
support of area arts and culture, youth development, health and adult
self-sufficiency Frederick Breitenfeld Award for Visionary Leadership in Public
Media:

* Dr. Frederick Breitenfeld Jr., for being a pioneer in educational and
instructional television. He assisted with the creation of the Carnegie
Commission
on Educational Broadcasting, which led to the Public Broadcasting Act in 1967,
and
became the first executive director of the Maryland Educational-Cultural
Television Commission in 1966.

"Miss Jean" Worthley Award for Service to Families and Children:

* Kevin Clash, the Emmy-winning puppeteer and creative force behind Sesame
Street
characters Elmo, Hoots the Owl and Baby Natasha

[Source: Maryland Public Television

rob.hiaasen@...


Copyright (C) 2007, The Baltimore Sun | Get Sun home delivery

Link to the article:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bal-to.missjean07jun07,1,5179959.\
story

Just ran across this and thought I'd pass it along....

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/gs_news/article/0,1406,KNS_392_5569128,00.html

Hi Jean,

Good to hear that you are recovering, the alternative is awful.

I retired in 2000 and have been botanizing and birding and
traveling.  Have to pinch myself to really believe this is happening
to me. I ook 4 different trips to the Adirondaks in the last month.
Life is good.  Sounds like it is good for you on balance.

Jer

Hi Jerry-
Great to hear from a voice of  the past. I'm fine but taking longer
to regain full use of my right leg than I'd hoped. My surgeon  says
the hip is fine so guess I need to work harder on my exercises.We had
a fine class here Sat. Seems as if MPT finally is realizing that
Hodgepodge Lodge made an impact. Most of my six offspring are coming
so we'll have a fine time. I'm not looking forward to getting dressed
up and going to a fancy hotel and staying up late but am sure I'll
have a good time and I get to meet Elmo! Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Lazarczyk
To: WorthleyBotany@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [WorthleyBotany] SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 6PM -- MPT VISION
HONORS Miss Jean


Is Jean OK?

Jerry Lazarczyk
Grand Island NY
Class of 1996-2000