By Joanne Hutton
If you had been out volunteering with Meet Me on a Sunday on this glorious afternoon, you too might have enjoyed the chorus of woodfrogs spawning at the pond and in vernal pools.
Thanks to Sherry McDonald for the great shot and for throwing herself into the Master Naturalist enterprise with whole heart!
Meet Me on a Sunday (MMOAS): Instituted summer of 2012, volunteers help set up and staff information or interest-area tables in Potomac Overlook Regional Park on Sunday afternoons for two hours, from 1:30 – 3:30, just outside the Nature Center. Volunteers work alongside Nature Center staff, and you are welcomed to set up your own display on a topic of your interest, or to use a range of interpretive materials already there. Most park visitors are families with young children. The Native Plant Garden is a new addition to the park, and ARMN has created a box of information and display materials on invasive and native plants to help with that.
Willing to talk with the public about most any subject of interest to you?
Want to help develop children’s activities to supplement our box?
Want to lead short nature hikes for mixed audiences – e.g. to see wood frogs in action?
If so, this activity could be for you!
I just went to this park for the first time yesterday and log it! Here are some frog photos I posted on my wordpress blog today. http://iseebeautyallaround.com/2013/08/21/frogs-under-camouflage-at-potomac-overlook/
I hope to get back to Potomac Overlook soon. Cheers, Rob Paine