04-01-21

Canyon Park

I saw three bears today. April Fool's!

Back in Canyon. I'm trying to walk back to where Q took K and I yesterday. That's where I saw trilliums for the first time. We met a couple there - Nick and Linda - who said the triliums were out early. I wanted to keep talking to them, to learn more, but the guys didn't seem interested.

I walked downhill to the east like we had before.. but instead of taking the gravel path, I found a deer trail. I'm so split on the ideas of social trails; It's important to preserve native species and avoid stomping them out, but I've been taught to "close" social trails in a distinctly anti-homeless way. That's why I almost didn't finish my stewardship cert.

I am sitting on a large, curved, grooved douglas fir (tzche-bee-dots). Mosses inlay the grooves. The trunk is shaped like a J that took flight at the top, and I'm sitting in the crook.

Two cedars 20ft away from me have grown together on the same stump. One root crosses over the root of the other, like legs.

Trying to stop comparing myself to people I've read or my friends who write nature journals. I may not be very observant or know how to look, but I see what I see.

5:18

Finally made it to the pond! It's not a feat to have gotten here, but I've wanted to for some time. The pons id brown and reflective, like a beer bottle. Clusters of lily pads form cliques on the surface.