NEW PICNIC TERRACE
By Valerie Braybrooke, Landscaping Committee Chair 
OLLI HAS A NEW ROOM. The Picnic Terrace is open for business. OLLI members have expressed that their second most important activity is socializing, but we have an obvious paucity of socializing spaces. So the Dirty Knee Club has built two outdoor spaces among the gardens to help relieve the problem. Last year the patio in Solomon's Loop, with its six chairs, was in use the moment the last Thyme was planted between the pavers. I barely had time to remove my fingers from underfoot before Carr Whitener was seated with his newspaper, looking as if he lived there.
     The new area has been built at the edge of our campus where most members have never wandered before. To get there we put in what looked like the Pathway to Nowhere, curving south between Smallwood House and TA-2. The Nowhere turned out to be a flagstone terrace with tables and chairs at the top of two rows of big, old Azaleas evidently planted by residents of the late Tallwood House.
     This new outdoor room beneath Tallwood's tall oaks was made possible only with an anonymous member's generous donation. The labor in its construction was provided by the team of sixty- and seventy-somethings of the Dirty Knee Club. The Picnic Terrace is this year's example of a combination of Time, Energy and Money put to use for the pleasure of all OLLI members.