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Dawn Over Mikinaak Creek 3
Storm Downed Poplar. These poplar tees are safe from loggers but not from beaver, high winds and storms. They topple over and rot into the ground feeding birds, bugs and sometimes their own seedlings around them. All of the largest white spruce here were planted by hand, in 1974, by a friend and I, and many were planted in these big fallen trees.
Walks in the woods, for me, are usually solitary affairs Even though my explorations are across land that I've owned since 1971 and know extremely well, I still see something new -- and often differently than the last time I passed. The light may affect it; certainly the weather and the change of seasons. I may be wanting to see a particular thing, for instance 'sheds', antlers which have fallen off deer bucks in late winter. Or as in the case below, three years ago, a whole deer skeleton indicating it died where it fell and was buried by the snow, safe from vultures, eagles, magpies, ravens and crows. I saw its antler points above the snow; and came back for its skull and antlers that spring.
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