Asakiyume mita

Perhaps you're in the mood for a change of pace?

We went for a walk through a landscape transformed by beavers. It's always been marshy; they have turned it into their own habitat. There are frogs in here, and red-winged blackbirds flying over the reedy parts, and redstarts singing in the skunk-cabbage parts.





We saw a great tree, SO TALL, that will soon be down:



Evidence (pond-facing side):



Some extra gnawing (trail-facing side):



Again, that tree is TALL:



So think of beavers. There was no pond before but there is a pond now.