Anyone enjoying walking alone in the woods?

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Do you take your dog?

I take her fairly often. She’s a bit lazy when it comes to this long of a hike, especially on a hot day.

I saw this little guy today. I fought the urge to pick him up because amphibians have permeable skin and are susceptible to toxins. I did not know that when I was a kid and spent lots of time looking for and playing with them. His name is Lucretius. Isn’t he cute?

^ Cute , but also evidence you are never alone when waking through woods.

Salamander ?

Yep. The orange ones are my favorite, but I haven’t seen any lately.

Nice.I have spotted ones that breed in my garden pool in early spring.
Yellow polka dots.

I would love to see an orange salamander in the wild, I just came back from the woods and this is the most exotic thing I saw - Some shady Canadian eyeballing me.

^ I saw a wild turkey the other day. I felt sort of guilty since I made a roast turkey recently and still had some leftovers in the fridge.

I see deer sometimes. Today I saw a bluebird. They are so pretty.

My view from where I was laying at one point:



Notes to self: I miss seeing the stars. I need to do something about that.

I need new hiking shoes.

I walk alone in the woods almost daily, as I live in them.
Also, the back of my property borders the national park, so I have lots to explore.

^ I’m jealous! I lived in the woods during a portion of my childhood.

I think the woods is sort of like a river: we can never step in the same woods twice since things are constantly growing and changing, different animals make a fleeting appearance, and we aren’t exactly the same as the last time we were there.

British woods look like eastern US forests (broadleaf deciduous trees).

American forests are dominated by evergreen needle trees in the west (the Rockies and in the Pacific northwest).

The other day I googled pictures of "the Black Forest" of Germany and apparently its a very Colorado-like pine forest.

There were two deer in the edge of the yard today.A spike buck and a doe.

I grew up in a an urban, Temperate climate with lots of trees. Us kids loved it when someone left a window open and and Brown Salamanders got into the house or the garage after what little rainfall we would get. They could bite though and I later found out that the native yellow variety are toxic.

I used to do a lot of hiking on Washington DC's C+O Canal. Over the years have seen deer, vultures, osprey (fish hawks), bald eagles, cormorants, grebes, piliated woodpeckers, muskrats, beavers, hummingbirds, to name a few things.

If the woods had A/C and fewer bugs, I'd be more inclined to go.