Some Lupines Survived The Storms

 I made a brief visit to the north tract today to check on the lupines and see what detritus had emerged from the sand.

Four seedlings from this year's crop are still alive and appear to be healthy.

Some of the flags were missing for some reason. I replaced them with the flags next to the plants that did not make it. There is no sense in having a flag present when the plant no longer is.

I will be checking for new seedlings in a couple of months.

After checking on the lupines, I spent about half an hour with a grabber and a bucket plucking pieces of glass, metal and plastic from the trails.

I also noticed someone appears to have chopped down a Scrub Bay next to the fire lane. Very mysterious.

Still Finding Trash Inside The Woods

 

I stopped by the south tract earlier this week to see if any Ghost Pipes had popped as did several years ago after a wet fall.

No such luck.

I did find some trash, the majority of it broken beer bottles from the homeless encampment days.

I sent back in today from the point where I exited and found some of the stuff from my earlier visit, but walked astray and didn't find some of the other stuff. but stuff I had not found before.

It is more difficult to move around here because there are no internal fire lanes and a fair amount of tree fall from the storms to navigate around but eventually came out on the other side with a full bucket of debris.

I saw more on my way out. This will merit another trip.

Who knows one day I may find a set of keys I lost through a hole in my pocket 15 years ago.