Today's adventure was a search for blackberries along a favorite old woods road. I carried lots of empty containers. As it turned out, most of the blackberries were not yet ripe, neither were the elderberries. But it was not a wasted trip. I did pick a few blackberries, red raspberries, wild cherries, and blueberries. Gentle breezes swirled down through the tree branches. Filtered sunlight added golden highlights to patches of ferns. An occasional colored leaf brightened the forest floor.
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| Old woods road |
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| Sunlit ferns along the path |
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| A red-leafed plant |
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| Lovely patch of moss |
A one-inch-long toad was hopping through the moss, but he was camera-shy and didn't wait for me to take his picture... By the time I was ready, he had disappeared into the leaf layer below.
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| Very tall trillium going to berries |
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| Colorful leaf on fern |
Besides the little toad I saw a half-eaten mouse in the path. Then a mink was sighted, brownish long sleek animal with a long tail. It ran up onto a low branch, then slipped away. No time to photograph it, of course.
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| Two tiny ferns in the path |
It was a delightful day which ended with a pizza run.
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