Daily round

As my second week here unfolds I decided to let the iPhone and its pals measure my daily walk. Leaving from "Parked Car" on Stoney Brook Road I walk down to Pisgah Shadows and then turn uphill to Top of the Mountain Road. I usually get about as far as the blue dot, about 1 mile and up about 400 feet. I hew to the left side of the road, so see completely different things on the ways up and back down. 

Some of today's gleanings, strictly chronological:

new beginnings along Stoney Brook Road

Klimty along Pisgah Shadows Road, Top of the Mountain turnoff in the distance

along comparatively shady mountain side of Top of the Mountain Road

fuzz competition

Shagbark hickory

as the road levels out a bit, grasses

this little eastern white pine (fifth snap a week ago) is where I usually turn back

a fallen branch's lichen lets me finally get some beech buds in focus!

rhododendron exuberance

don't they look like they're dancing?

one of many ladbugs munching on aphids munching on these leaves

the view through an opening southeastward

eastward the view is closing - or closing in? (my new screensaver!)

oakay

violets!

unfolding kaleidoscope

self-decorating tree

smiley faces

the hair on new beech leaves may be for looking like another caterpillar's already there

levitating bumble bee back on Pisgah Shadows Road

my first friend (you know kin), a perhaps pignut hickory just below where we're staying

"Parked Car" gets its fill of trees, too!