Country walks part II

I feel like lingering on in my little personal paradise island for a bit still. The summer cottage is on an island but reachable by car all year round as the island of Noto is separated from the mainland only by a narrow channel and there's a bridge going over it. Okay there's a lot of cottages there so it's by no means my personal space apart from the plot the cottage is on, which goes all the way down to the water's edge.

This time I want to present mainly some of the tree life on that island.


Silver branches


Huggingly weird tree trunk


A giant burl on a birch tree


Interesting root. Like a woman's buttocks.


Roots of a fallen tree


Mossy roots creeping over the forest floor


Roots in a brook. Or perhaps dinosaur feet?


The leaf buds of a wild rose


Coltsfoot in the grass. Flowers within the flower.


Cattail that has dispersed nearly all of its millions of seeds


A cute tree dweller that has lost a big part of its grey winter coat. Soon it'll be all red.


A little imsy wimsy spider running on a stick


This is my older brother, who also came to the cottage for easter as his wife was in Japan on business. We don't live close and he's a very busy working architect so it was really nice to see him. We're so proud of him.

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