Enjoying the Woods

Aug 30, 2011

As part of the "lazy" August, let's do a picture week. This is where I am right now, and this is what I see as I do my summer reading.

The original part of the camp is nearly 100 years old. It's beaten and battered, but it's home (and now that we have Internet, my summer office):

I am surrounded by a nicely established Eastern hardwood forest:

I can take walks along the stream:

And through the forest:

And share my lunch with a friend.

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Between 2022 and 2023, both Brazil and Colombia experienced a sharp decline in primary forest loss, reported the University of Maryland's Global Land Analysis and Discovery laboratory.

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