Garden Variety: Explore the Brandywine River Valley
Inspiration for history buffs, artists
and green thumbs
At first glance, the banks of Brandywine Creek seem to contain not much more than reeds. But as I paddle past, a bird slowly emerges from its hiding place, stretching its body until it is nearly the size of the kayak before taking off with a flap of its massive wings. And then the great blue heron is gone, sailing downstream on the breeze.
Earth-friendly flooring
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When it came time for Simon Lewis and Wendy Smith to replace the floors in their Edwardian-era home in the Potrero Hill section of San Francisco, they struggled with the options. “It had to be beautiful,” Lewis says, “but we also wanted to make sure we were conserving nature.”
Overboard
Was it recklessness or bad luck that cost Arthur Moffatt ’41 his life on a 1955 canoe expedition in Canada’s Northwest Territories? The survivors have never agreed.