Oh that scenery is gorgeous!
I got out and about today for a bit to look after the woods. I didn't see any bittersweet this time out, but I did cut some poison ivy vines creeping up a tree over a pasture. Nasty stuff! More pleasantly, I seeded more wildflowers about the far fields and up along the logging road.
I was out with modernish things again since it was a "work trip" - I loved having mosquito spray for a change, but I am absolutely
not used to all the sloshing of a metal canteen.
I took along the New Invented I just finished for its inaugural jaunt - the too-narrow strap did cut in a bit, but it hangs very nicely out of the way along the back. It wasn't terribly loaded: just a thin blanket, tarp, and little bag of just-in-case forest toys. Haversack's got my seeds and saw and clippers and such - here we see a very excitable pupper photobombing the picture -
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The beavers have moved on from the creek, and without them the water's down and tons of green is coming back -
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Over the water and through the woods - I found this curious tree in thick forest. It was actually a maple I think, though the canopy was thick and I didn't get a great look at the leaves. Still I don't recall seeing a trunk colored like this - some kind of lichen I suppose?
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I kept trekking up to the top of the hill to a bit more in a pasture we're letting go to forest - and found some wild blueberries! Noms!
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It's been a good day.
Persona: Aerlinneth, Dúnedain of Amon Lendel c. TA 3010.