Fun outing to spend the day with some friends who live in the woods in the Catskills. It was the perfect day for it, clear and not too warm, a respite from what seem like weeks of less clement weather, cold and hot and stormy. As the trees steadily shed new seeds and old needles, pyramidal ferns rose like housing complexes all around. But it was a humble Eastern (Red-Spotted) Newt who stole the show!
