Quite a sultry, cloudy afternoon, -- hot walking in woods and lowland where there is no air.
I see nowadays in the pitch pine woods countless white toadstools which have recently been devoured and broken in pieces and left on the ground and occasionally on the branches or forks of trees, no doubt by the squirrels. They appear to make a considerable part of their food at this season.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 30, 1860
I see nowadays in the pitch pine woods countless white toadstools which have recently been devoured and broken in pieces and left on the ground and occasionally on the branches or forks of trees, no doubt by the squirrels. They appear to make a considerable part of their food at this season.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 30, 1860
An overcast late fall day I start out with gloves but end up without them.
We circumnavigate our land in 3 1/2 hours. Climbing up Martel to Kendall dogs off leash then east over two or three ridges and around and down the red trail I water the dogs on the way back up and, instead of going over the ridge, we head more south toward the logging area and the top of the ridge with the property corners
I hike up a little to get a view but it's too cloudy to see whether Camel's Hump is visible. The dogs are in orange and red .
Jane heads down it seems to me east or southeast and we just keep going down a steep steep slope that levels out and we swing around along the trail and then off trail and then on trail and somewhat to my surprise we are at the Moose trail corner
We go out the Moose trail through the big house wetland and mark the signs along our southerly and Westerly border until we get near the fort and then walk home. Jane flushes a grouse.
A very satisfying walk mostly bushwhacking
I may have heard chickadee blue jay nuthatch and raven – but mostly it is the sound of the aspen in the wind and seeing the composition of the forest change from looking at the leaves on the ground
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