We have a few springs on our land which eventually form little streams. At some point they all meet up to form a small creek. Today Sidney and I took Max & Rocky along with my brother’s dog Ruby for a walk in the woods. We went down the old road until we got into a bottom area where a spring crosses the old road. Then we turned and walked a few yards to the larger stream. Here is the little spring that rushes down the hill:
This little spring runs underground briefly past this fallen log and then emerges into a small pool before it goes back underground to meet up with the stream a few feet away. Here is the little pool it makes:
We climbed down the bank into the creek and walked for a little way. The water was icy cold but I couldn’t resist taking off my shoes and wading in it!
The dogs enjoyed cavorting in the shallow water. See those overhanging mossy areas above? Sometimes mink will have their burrows in there. When my dad was a kid growing up here, he said there were still bear dens along this stream and every once in awhile they would catch sight of one. Once when my dad and his friends were in high school and working on an old car in their shop building a bear actually wandered in to their open garage door. They all quickly jumped into the car they were working on and closed the doors. The only problem with that was the car was a complete project car and the floor and seats weren’t even installed back into the car. So their feet were standing right on the floor of the garage and if the bear had been enterprising and wanted to get them, all he would have to do was to crawl under the edge of the car. Luckily, the bear wandered away after a few tense minutes.
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