Rain Ends for Soup 'n' Walk

Saturday's Soup 'n' Walk at Adkins Arboretum was rearranged to accommodate Mother Nature. Instead of walk first and soup later, we started with a program on fall color followed by a delicious lunch and, by the time we were ready for our docent-guided walk through the 400-acre native plant preserve, the rains had stopped.

The menu: Roasted red pepper and corn soup, cabbage and carrot slaw with toasted nuts, pumpkin bread with cream cheese and sweet potato pecan pie. "Nature, Nurture and Nutrition."

Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) (above r).









Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus) (above) was throughout the forest.

Wild mushrooms (above), mosses (below l) and one of Adkin's four native orchids (below r) with green leaves and dried out blossoms.

Tupelo or black gum tree (Nyssa sylvatica ) (above l) and the blue fruit of the Viburnum nudum (above r). Ann and Bill (below l) and wetlands foot bridge (below r).