The cabin overlooks a meadow. Once upon a time the meadow held a stable, but, purchased with drug money, IRS confiscated it and turned it over to the National Forest Service. Our gain.
Between the cabin and the meadow is a dirt road leading down a ravine and into the forest.
The light in the meadow highlights the grasses...
Filters through the trees...
And, in the late afternoon, turns the meadow a rich reddish gold.
Bordering the meadow are Jeffrey Pines. A favorite of Acorn Woodpeckers, their bark is riddled with holes into which acorns are stuffed. These 'granery trees' store acorns until the larvae infesting them hatch. Then the woodpeckers return to harvest this delicacy.
~B
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