Nature and Man

Day Two - Nature Challenge with CaliforniaGirl.

We live on about 5 acres of land, mostly wooded surrounded by 50 more acres of conservation land.  When the children were young, we explored those acres on a regular basis looking for salamanders, red efts and such.  When Logan was into paint balling, he and a friend would go out into the woods and shoot at targets and sometimes each other.  Beebee guns brought targets to the trees and bottles and cans too.   Sumner and her friend Katie made secret potions with the things they found there and put them in pretty glass bottles from the thrift store.  They had a "perfume factory" too, advertised by the beautiful painting on our side of the neighbors fence (she wasn't too happy with them that day!)  There were hikes and cross country skiing, wildflower picking and frog egg retrieval in the neighbors little vernal pools.  There is a stone wall that runs through it, remnant from an old farm I guess.  

So with Nature photos being the blip for the next 6 days Myles and I went in search of a suitable photo that hadn't already been taken.  I was thinking about how nature provides for its creatures with places to hide, decaying trees and leaves that become soil and homes for those little salamanders and countless insects no doubt.  Taking photos of trees that had come down and were being used by the woodpeckers.  But there along the stone wall in the hole of this tree was a Geocache.  Apparently, it had been placed on 7/17/2014.  Of course I opened it and it appeared to have been placed by some young adolescents, a ghoulish toy, some little Matchbox cars and such.  Wonder if anyone will ever find it??

In case you don't know, here's the definition of geocache:
Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.