Yesterday when I got home from work I took a lap around our property. I was on the lookout for small, straight hardwood trees. I need some poles for a competition the Pathfinders will engage in this May (lashing poles together to make a ladder). I found some suitable trees (2 inches in diameter) and cut them down. I wanted to cut them down with my bow saw, but I had left that in the Pathfinder trailer at the church. So I used my ax instead.
While I was scouting for trees I came across this bit of loveliness:
Slug surfing a slime mold
I believe this is a slime mold. I should have gone out again today to look at it – slime molds are motile, so it would have moved by today. Instead, David and I took Penny for a walk.
The path is still ice-covered
I wanted to bring the GPS and turn on some third-party software I loaded onto it. This software logs the position every 15 seconds or so. The reason I wanted to do this was so that I could add the trails in the Northfield Town Forest to OpenStreetMaps.org. Mission accomplished (but the trails don’t show up when I view the maps for some reason – maybe because I don’t know what I’m doing).
We covered most of the trails through the forest, but there are still a couple more I will get later. It was getting dark.
Along the road we live on their is an old chair in the woods. It has been there at least since we moved here seven years ago. Back then there was still leather on the seat and the back rest has not rotted off.
The beer bottle in the seat is relatively new though.
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March 17, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Some one’s deer stand?
March 17, 2012 at 11:13 pm
LOL. I suppose it’s camouflaged well enough – until a hunter sits in it at least.
March 18, 2012 at 5:33 am
One does not need a GPS just follow the trail of litter back to civilization
March 18, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I’m convinced I could haul out a couple of pickup loads of trash from the town forest without trying too hard, and there would still be plenty more.
March 18, 2012 at 8:04 am
Wow-you have nice wide trails in your area. You won’t find that in Swanzey along the river. You’re lucky that chair is all you have in the woods-here we have refrigerators, wahing machines, and even whole cars dotted here and there throughout the landscape. You have to know where to look to find them, but they’re there.
March 18, 2012 at 4:48 pm
That shot was actually of the class VI road. It’s used mostly by pedestrians, but I have seen 4WD’s on it in the past. The trails are not that wide.
March 20, 2012 at 8:57 pm
I love that old chair, you could do a sequence over the years, but that mold that WALKS, what kind of magic is this! amazing.. c
March 20, 2012 at 9:15 pm
It was originally classified as a fungus, but scientists now consider it to be in a different kingdom (protists). Of course they also used to classify fungi as plants, and that’s ITS own kingdom now too. I guess the work of the taxonomist is never done.