Fresh Pond Reservation

102+ degrees (but only because the temperature sensor is in direct sunlight). It will be left as an exercise for the viewer to determine why this contrail disappears, briefly reappears, briefly disappears, then reappears. Turning over a piece of wood in the words, turned up this ant colony and the odd creature to the left and down from the center of the picture. It looks like a centipede that appeared to have several large (relatively speaking) legs at the "front" of its body and no legs over 3/4ths of its length. But they are very tiny and visible in this picture enlarged about 50%. Oddly enough the creature moves as though its head is on the small (left side) end. I tweaked it and it reversed direction, smaller end first. That "farm" smell again at post 1000 again. Ranger Jean tells me there's a community garden just to the east that is using manure from a farm to fertilize its soil. Mystery solved. Fish at post 266--in the little pond. About half a dozen of them in the small spot where I could see into the water. They were about 6 inches long. Someone probably thought they were helping the animals when they dumped all this bread over the fence around the Huron Avenue playground. It will likely attract mostly pigeons--who will prosper at the expense of other species. Apparently someone reported a person trying to get through the fence around post 1100. Here's a hole in the fence that may have been created by a large turtle. A couple of geese, and lots of ducks, were on the golf course opposite post 30 and near Black's Nook.



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