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Pulgas Ridge Hike Poetry and the Mighty Oaks Docents: Ed Lange & Benita Rashall
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Preface: On Thursday, September 25, 2008, docents Ed Lange and Benita Rashall
led an afternoon 4-mile hike "Poetry and the Mighty Oak" at Pulgas Ridge Open Space
Preserve. My friend and I came here on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008 for a wildflower
hike (see Photos of Hike & Haikus).
The Open Space Preserve Fall brochure description on this hike said bring a tree poem
to share, so I brought a few. An elderly gentleman, Jim, who volunteers at Stanford's
Cactus Garden was the only hiker beside us that came along, so there were just five of us on
this Poetry & Oak Hike. Usually I'm at Stanford Green Library now that Fall Semester
started this week, but the lure of oaks, one of my favorite trees, and the love of
poetry brought me here today. Below are the photos and haikus for this occasion.
(Bay Area Hiker;
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 2:40 pm Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve 366-acres in San Mateo County, CA Only five of us came on this hike— love for poetry and oaks. | |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 3:00 pm Pulgas Ridge: Polly Geraci Trail Lagging behind the other hikers, I stop to listen to the hole at the base of this California Live Oak California Live Oak chants to me— I stop and listen to its Ommm! | |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 3:33 pm Pulgas Ridge: Polly Geraci Trail Benita read Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Mouse That Gnawed The Oak Tree Down" I read "Tree Poem" with John Keats' epigraph After hilly climb a bench to rest in the shade— we read some poetry. | |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 3:45 pm Pulgas Ridge: Polly Geraci Trail California Live Oak looks like painting of Claude Monet "Mountains at l'Esteret" (1888) Monet has painted this tree already over a century ago! | |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 3:55 pm Pulgas Ridge: Hassler Trail A giant Eucalyptus Tree Jim tells story of TB sanitarium Hassler Health Home at this site. Here's the former site of TB patients searching for fresh mountain air. | |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 4:10 pm Pulgas Ridge: Hassler Trail Green Live Oak & California Blue Oak A symphonic poem of colors— Green Live Oak side by side with Blue Oak. | |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 4:20 pm Pulgas Ridge: Blue Oak Trail Benita shows us Bruce Pavlik's book "Oaks of California" & reads poem W.S. Merwin's "Trees" from "The Compass Flower" (1977) I listen to trees tenderly— they have carried me in their branches | |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 2:40-4:30 pm Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve "Poetry and the Mighty Oak" Hike Docents Ed Lange & Benita Rashall Lovely two-hour hike seeing these majestic oaks and reading tree poems. | |
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