About my interests in the outdoors: nature, hiking, cycling, kayaking, etc.
I’m a little behind on things (yeah, things get in the way….) and generally what’s out of sight is out of mind so every now and then somebody does something to nudge me along. My daughter is on spring break (Spring! Where?) from college and so sent this picture from her mom’s house perhaps to […]
The radio says dense fog this morning. Of course they live in a building with no windows but there probably is fog somewhere. We just don’t get it here. The light just gets softened a little – a bit more filtration. Something about the lay of the land here that keeps us out of the
Finally some answers to my beech tree beastie questions! Check out these links: 1. Insect Images 2. Beech Blight Aphid 3.The Harvester Butterfly larva eat them. The American Beech Fungus grows on the “honeydew” (Aphid Sh*t?) that drips on the branches and on the ground around the tree. Thanks to Doug Sprouse of the Triangle Land Conservancy
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