some say heaven is a place on earth....

[wesw]

did some house sitting and pet care for my son while he was on vacation this week. his house backs up to the swampland of Trap Pond state park, with miles and miles of rural farmland in front of him. it s beautiful.

trap pond is supposed to have the northern most stand od Bald Cypress remaining, tho that is not quite true....

anyway, his backyard borders the drop off to the swampland and there is a lot of old growth forest, relatively speaking anyway. there is not much old growth left around here, mostly in the bottomlands....

so...

over the past few days I have had the pleasure of some nice trees. huge old hickory trees, tulip poplars, cypress trees, black walnut trees. even a cherry tree on the edge of his yard.

then there was the wildlife. I got to see 2 dead foxes, one with a juvenile bald eagle feeding on it, one live red fox, countless deer, countless buzzards, a groundhog burrow

oh, and I saw a patch of native ground cactus on the way home one day while I was exploring the backroads!!!!

I have seen plenty of the cactus at the Delaware seashore and I have seen plenty on the Chesapeake bay side of Delmarva, it grows in sandy backyards around Nanticoke, md, but this is the first patch I have ever seen in the MIDDLE of our fair land.....

nice.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I'm jealous

[BoSoxGal]

sounds great!

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