Friday, May 2, 2014

A walk in the Needham Town Forest

Been there many times, but still noticed a lot of new things this time.

The skunk cabbage crop coming in fine.



 This rock has little lichen bumps...they are like braille bumps on the surface of the rock. Maybe they are anchor pads left over from moss which maybe used to be here? I have no idea. Little rock-hard bumps everywhere.



 Here's a rock I've been by many times. 

It looks like rotten wood fibers being stressed torsionally.



 One of a hundred or more vernal pools. Those I've noticed before, certainly.

A glass bottle someone stuck on a branch, with some moss or something inside which tried valiantly to grow for a time.

 On a railroad tie is a blue and white marker. The enameled paint apparently cracked and fractured into a fascinating pattern.

Look at these little fungus guys with red things at the ends of their stalks.





Do you see the deer in the background? Sammy never did.

 I found a pelvis. Half a pelvis. A couple other bones, too.

 mmmm, trabecular



 Milkweed with water droplets.



 Here is a tree which is very distinctively blown apart. It's bark is all gone and it is fractured in many scattered pieces, as by a violent event.

The trunk is rent open in its midsection.

 Maybe struck by lightning?

 Bug holes in blown up tree.

 Pieces everywhere. Bark all gone.



 Sammy goes for a dip.



New at Martini Junction: some handmade little chairs with a segment of train track or I beam as a dinner table.





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