You Are An American Bladdernut!

Today is warm but rainy. I stopped at Goodwin Forest Conservation Area and Pine Acres Lake because I missed the turn for Mansfield Hollow State Park.

What the what? Is this a picnic table for a baby Paul Bunyan?

I saw two trumpeter swans out on the lake.

Chestnut oak tree.

Lovely diamond pattern on the bark of the American Linden.

Why do plant names also sound like insults? You are an American bladdernut!

Wow! Big spiderweb. This one is made of twine which is better than the fake spiderwebs I see on almost every decorated house. Owls can probably disentangle themselves from this web. Owls cannot get out of the fake spider webs. Just think of the trauma a kid would experience finding an owl trapped in the spiderweb on their front porch! A friend of mine grew up on a prairie farm in SW Minnesota and she never forgot the horror of a hawk flying through their picture window while her parents went to church and she was home alone with the younger siblings.

Eastern white pine tree forest.