I wanted to get this one last part of the trail done today, so I rode the bike up to the ridge top and parked here.
Then I walked on out this part of the trail to where the work needed to be done.
I worked on improving this part of the trail today. I tried to limit myself to two hours of work to keep from getting so tired out, but I was working away and before I knew it, I had four hours in on it.
Weird plant
On the way back to the bike, I spotted this weird plant. I’d passed by it before and just thought it was a dried out fern, but a closer look proved that to be wrong. It’s about a foot high.
It was growing right in the middle of the trail and had little balls on it.
A closer look showed the little balls where likely flower buds. I have no idea what it is but I’ll be watching it to see what the flowers look like.
Spring
On the way home, I stopped at the water spring I worked on yesterday to see about tapping it’s water. The water is coming out of the hillside all along there.
Maybe about two gallons a minute are coming out of the hillside. I’ll measure it eventually. Springs like this slow down later in the summer.
This is the main spot where it’s coming out of the hillside and where I need to dig a hole, but not today.
I continued on towards home and then spent the rest of the day taking it easy in the yard.
Yup that’s a weird plant. Never seen anything like it. I’ll be interested to see what it looks like if it blooms. Springs always fascinate me … where does the water come from?
Google thinks your mystery flower is Coral Root. If it is, then it will flower but does not have leaves.
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Header Pictures
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
I’m thinking Pinedrops.
Glad somebody has made a guess on the rather weird plant. And that you have survived yet another day…
There is an interesting free app. called Seek by iNaturalist. You take a picture of a plant or animal and it identifies your photo.
I think the plant is Pinedrops, a parasitic plant.
Yup that’s a weird plant. Never seen anything like it. I’ll be interested to see what it looks like if it blooms. Springs always fascinate me … where does the water come from?
Google thinks your mystery flower is Coral Root. If it is, then it will flower but does not have leaves.