A Virtual Walk on the SFL Nature Trail

In the following three short videos, a virtual tour of the Sandhills Farm Life Nature Trail is offered.  For old-timers, the students of Mr. Loyd's class dating back to 1975, this is a reunion of sorts.  For other lovers of the outdoors and friends of the Farm Life community, this may be your first acquaintance with this wonderful resource.  Whatever your status, you are invited to make it YOUR nature trail, and visit it often.  This trail is best appreciated when you visit it seasonally to view the marvelous cycle of nature.  Just now, new growth is beginning to emerge.  Dogwoods will be blooming.  The fiddletops of at least six varieties of ferns will soon push through the moist woodland soil.  Soon, the fresh green leaves of all kinds of hardwood trees will once again fill the canopy, shading the paths of our trail.  These videos offer a view of our newly refurbished, user-friendly trails, mentioning just a few familiar landmarks.  But there is no substitute for actually walking the trails, and the weeks between now and summer display our trail at its very best.  If you are on Facebook, you are invited to visit Friends of the Sandhills Farm Life Nature Trail, where all plants are shown in albums, and tours by many classes and groups are documented.  Now, on with the tour.

(2min 43sec) From the beginning of the

trail to Jack, Will, and Tom

(2min 35sec) From Jack, Will, and Tom to the 

bridge that crosses the stream

(3min 21sec) From the bridge to Big Rock, 

then looping back to the beginning

Now to close with a few photos to whet

your appetite further.

This little patch of delicate Bellwort is popping through
near Jack, Will, and Tom.  Soon it's pale yellow bell-like
flowers will be on display.  But not for long!

Yellow Root is one of the hidden treasures
of our trail.  Please don't harvest it!

A view looking downstream from Big Rock

The view upstream from Big Rock.  This log is all
that remains visible from the tree that fell more that
25 years ago.  It was the stream itself that toppled
this giant which once thrived streamside.

Here is our teaching station/observation area
adjacent to Big Rock.  This rock is an igneous
extrusion from the McLendon Fault, the geologic
formation which underlies our school and this
part of Moore County.

This view from farther upstream shows
our meandering, newly-cleaned-out stream.

COME ONE, COME ALL!