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| No sign of pig tracks he |
Sunday morning the weather was very warm again when the dog and I started down to the Pig Farm. The temperature was in the low 60's and the humidity was very high due to the south wind. Our purpose on Sunday was to see if we could find any evidence that the pigs we had noted on Saturday may have walked down the pig farm road. When we arrived at the end of the road I searched the ground for signs and found nothing but dog tracks. My thought is that the pigs are avoiding this area due to it's proximity humans who have houses up the road. The new barbed wire fences the owner of the property has installed may very well have something to do with my not seeing the pig's tracks there. I don't think the pigs want to go under the wire especially if they have little ones. We walked around in the woods a little and found nothing really out of the ordinary.
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| Four trees grow too close to walk between. |
I did notice a patch of 4 trees growing very close to one another. The lack of space between these different species of trees is probably due to the way their seeds are dispersed by squirrels and birds in a random manner on the forest floor. With no human there to cull the trees when they grow in this Robinson Crusoe tree fortress style.
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| The Red Maple's last hurrah. |
While we ambled back toward home and I thought about a cup of coffee I suddenly noticed some very red Maple tree leaves. They were so red and so accessible at the roadside that I had to photograph them. The red maples in the woods of Grand Bay have now gone from green to yellow and now red as the leaves prepare to fall. The Red Maples around here like to be in the woods with other trees. I had one in the middle of my front yard that struggled with disease for years until it finally succumbed. I think they do best as an understory tree out of the blazing summer sun. I think if I was a tree that is where I would want to be also. Thanks for reading my blog today. Bye.
