Freezing rain glazed over the forest. The sun helped light up the ice in the crowns of the trees.
Category Archives: Woodland
Brushy Water
This vernal pool has become very brushy. Just outside the edge of the forest is pasture, where it is easier to walk.
Water Never Before
Even holes I dug a long time ago filled up with water for the first time. This is the 2nd year in a row with over 50 inches of rain in a year. Last year was a record, and this year beat last year. We average 30 inches of rain a year.
Escape Artist
I will have to build up the dam on this vernal pond. The water is escaping through the goat pasture.
Greenery
I keep planting evergreens throughout the woods. I would have liked my bamboo to live and be one of the important evergreens, but so far only conifers are important here. Owls like the winter habitat I am creating for them.
Close But Safe
The Canadian Hemlocks I planted this spring didn’t seem like they would be this close to the water’s edge. Hard to tell where the water line was when eyeballing the dry pond this spring.
Not Meant to Be
The little dams I built throughout the woods suppose to stop the water and be big enough to not fill completely up, but I did not realize how much water can rush through the steep valleys. So I started building emergency spillways even for my little vernal ponds. This vernal pond is a good example […]
My Little Pond Network
I have a multitude of little ponds I built in a forest nearby the house. Today every little hole was filled with water, giving a nice appearance of a network of vernal pools, stepping their way down the valley.
Green Weeps
The forest is looking bare, but a lone Weeping Willow stands out. This fast growing hybrid tree keeps its leaves on later than most other deciduous trees.
Woodland Flowers
Even in late summer and fall, there are some woodland plants flowering. But most of the plants flower earlier in the year, especially in spring.