- Tue Nov 15, 2022 4:25 pm
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There used to be an old watershed pond on the north side of our property...manmade (grandfather had the dam built probably around 1955 or so). It has been twenty-five years since I've been back there and decided to walk there yesterday. One thing I found out is that I'm not 12 years old anymore!!!! The walk back uphill was something else!!!
Anyhow, just as I figured there wasn't much there. The old steel standpipe had rusted off and it was two mud holes. The deer were having a blast there, though, churning up the edge of the mudholes watering there. As I mentioned, it was a watershed pond...only getting its water from rain passing through a pine forest and traveling through two small "valleys" to it. I thought...there might be something interesting growing there. Well, I didn't see any sundews or anything but I did come upon these patches of mosses. I don't *think* it is sphagnum, but at the time I wasn't looking very close as I was trying to remember the number for 911 in case I needed them to come drag me out from down there.
What type moss do ya'll say this is? Sheet? Star? ???
I *might* venture back down there again...the old road has completely overgrown and it *sure* seems a lot further than it use to be, too!!!
Anyhow, just as I figured there wasn't much there. The old steel standpipe had rusted off and it was two mud holes. The deer were having a blast there, though, churning up the edge of the mudholes watering there. As I mentioned, it was a watershed pond...only getting its water from rain passing through a pine forest and traveling through two small "valleys" to it. I thought...there might be something interesting growing there. Well, I didn't see any sundews or anything but I did come upon these patches of mosses. I don't *think* it is sphagnum, but at the time I wasn't looking very close as I was trying to remember the number for 911 in case I needed them to come drag me out from down there.
What type moss do ya'll say this is? Sheet? Star? ???
I *might* venture back down there again...the old road has completely overgrown and it *sure* seems a lot further than it use to be, too!!!
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