Happy Earth Day

The first Earth Day celebration in 1970 started the modern environmental movement, according to Wikipedia.

It's been said that spring is when the South shows off.  True.  Here are a few nature photos taken around the Jefferson Park neighborhood. If you have any favorites of your own, please email them here so they can be added.

Hug a tree today.  Or pick up litter.


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New gardeners in the Jefferson Park neighborhood makes plans for spring

Spring officially begins March 20 so it is timely that a new gardening club is getting ready for new plantings. 

Holly Roseberry, of East Woodland Circle, is organizing the effort.  She said several people have contacted her about getting it off the ground, while some 20 people have joined the group's Facebook page:  Jefferson Park, GA Gardening Club.  Find it at http://bit.ly/92nJrU

The group's members range from novices to a horticulturist. Roseberry said she has little experience herself. "Last year we had a couple of tomato plants in pots and also flowers lining the walkway. That inspired us to finally get serious this year and make some vegetable beds in the yard," she said in an email. 

It's Facebook description shows a variety of activities for the group, from growing vegetables and using raised vegetable garden beds to organic methods.

And many hands make light work, so the group has a goal to converge on each other's gardens and get some serious work done.

To get involved, contact Holly at hollyroseberry(at)gmail.com.

And this article from the Wall Street Journal may be of interest to folks with a green thumb: Attack of the Rotten Tomatoes.

Weeding, mulching makes JP shine

Residents cleaned up the flowerbeds and stone markers at the entrances to Jefferson Park in time for next week's tour of homes.

Helping out at dawn's early rise Saturday, around 8:30 a.m., were: Alan Martin and Dena Harris, of Blount Street, and neighborhood association president Clay Davis, of Harris Street.