1 October
At last, it's truly autumn. Rainy days are followed by sparkling light, and crisp air. The Forest and Wetlands are enlivened by returning birds, and smell fresh.
The morning light gleams through the forest.
A spider web is illumined. Still holding the morning's dew, the strands look deceptively dense, but the craft of web-building is unmistakable.
The mosses on both living and fallen trees have grown lush and they too, gleam in the forest's light.
This stump, the target for woodpeckers since spring, shrinks every week, as they seek out its occupants for their dinners.
As the rains have freshened the forest, fungi emerge from the earth,
on downed trees,
And on living trees.
In addition to the water gauge, a close look at this photo will find a damselfly above the marsh. The dragonfly and damselfly population is shrinking but still active.
Since recent rainfall, there is more open water at the southeast end of the marsh. There is a distant and blurry goose on the water's edge.
8Mount Arrowsmith awaits its snowfalls.
A flight of geese made its way to the open water.
High above the marsh, a juvenile red-tailed hawk circled.
The vegetation that fringes the marsh is showing autumnal gold.
We left along the path hung with moss and lush with fern and salal, as always, grateful for the beauty of the area, and wondering what the coming week will have to show us.
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