A view while laying on the forest floor at Zaleski State Forest.
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Camping at Zaleski State Forest
This Labor Day weekend, Jenn, Matt and I went backpacking at Zaleski State Forest, Ohio. The forest is south of Wayne National Forest and surrounds parts of Lake Hope State Park. Oaks appeared to be the dominate tree in the sandy soils, particularly Swamp White Oak, and, as a result, there was a constant barrage of acorns heavily thumping on the ground around us.
Most of the trip was dedicated to eating – I brought and ate some Johnsonville sausage over rice and washed it down with some freshly made coffee using the French press below. Good stuff.
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Limestone flatworm
I discovered this large, terrestrial flatworm on top of the Guaycan overlook at Palo Verde. I wonder if it’s one of those cool predatory Geoplanids!?
Juvenile Boa constrictor constrictor
A couple of Bog flowers with low depth-of-field
Marsh St. Johnswort (Triadenum virginicum) and Three-way Sedge (Dulichium arundinaceum).
A couple more from the cottage
Fog on the Delaware river and some moss covered tree roots.
Welcome Class of 2014
In celebration of the start of a new academic year, Kent State sponsors a concert and a competitive array of fireworks. The show was pretty extravagant, given that it’s a celebration of incoming students into one university – an event that seems certainly worthy of celebration, after all, ‘they’ are the future, but it was a little over the top for me.
Anyway, I gave photographing the show a shot; Night photography is very different and difficult, but here’s a few.
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Keepers of the forest
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Last weekend, while visiting Erik’s cottage, we saw a pair of porcupines, which was the first time I had every seen a while one. The pair were relatively small, but it was certainly a mother and offspring that hobbled under some dark bushes off of the trail we were hiking. Fortunately, neither fired any quills at me while photographing them…. |
Cooley Creek
A mushroom
In Equinunk, PA.