On April 28, a group of our volunteers donned work clothes and rubber gloves to help clean up Durham's Ellerbee Creek. Our thanks to all who volunteered. Several of our contributors are outdoors this month as well. Closer to home, Robert Sherrill sings the praises of his own unruly front yard, and speaks out against efforts to force him to tame it. And Zach Dunn offers a lighthearted account of his green-thumbed mother and her efforts to create the world's most toxic compost pile.
Nature pops up elsewhere, too.
And for the second year in a row, we have winners of the photography contest sponsored by the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. Of course, we wouldn't be able to bring you any of this without the support of our advertisers. We're also putting a system in place to offer links to our advertisers through our website. It should be available soon. But as important as advertising is, the focus of the Urban Hiker is and always will be the stories our friends and neighbors tell about their own lives in their own voices.