The green photos are all from June 2006, except the pond, which was greener in April. This is the view as you approach the land from the south. That single log crossing the road is the south boundary line. Far ahead is the north hill, with the north line roughly along the top, 660 feet from the south line.


Standing on the south line looking north. I put those logs in the middle of the road to stop people from driving on the land and cutting trees down. Beyond it is the "parking lot," the big dead area where they loaded the logs. After two rainy Junes the green is starting to come back. Also notice the two slash piles left of center and on the right.

If you draw an X through the previous shot, I'm standing a few pixels above the center, looking northwest up the north hill. On the left side, just up from that double tree, is where I'm building the cabin.


And here's the west hill. I've never seen it this green. That ten foot tall stump near the top is probably the most distinctive feature on the land. The grass in the bottom half is reed canarygrass, which grows more than six feet tall and should be excellent for thatching and cob. Directly to my right are the blueberry bushes.


Now I'm standing on that stump in the middle of the last shot, looking back down at the grassy meadow. I swear I did not tamper with the color saturation. There are some apple seedlings on the left that are still too small to see.


This view is looking north by northeast, down the west hill and up the north hill. On the left is the tall stump again. The hillside on the upper left is logging company land to the north, but pretty much the rest of this is my land.



The view south from near the top of the north hill. You can see the "parking lot" and beyond it the access road. That tiny black dot is the car I came in, and the white blotch in the upper right is the cabin on the neigboring land, which finally sold in fall of 2006.


The spring, full of algae. It's about the size of a large hot tub. I drink from it when it looks like this, but not in deep summer when it starts to smell pondy.



And here are some shots from December 2006. I bought some good boots and walked in two miles from the end of the pavement to see what the land looks like covered with snow. This first photo is the approach. You can make out my roadblock and parking lot up ahead, and the north hill beyond it.




There were animal tracks everywhere! Here I'm looking back the way I came across the "parking lot" area. The human-like track on the right is mine. All the others are critter highways, mostly deer.



The west hill. All it needs is a little cabin in the middle and it's a Christmas card photo. The sun is out and the temperature is getting above freezing for the first time in a couple weeks, and powdery snow is falling everywhere from the trees.




The spring in winter, still running! On my way up I scared away a young deer that was taking a drink. You can see from the tracks that this is a popular spot.




Over the last couple summers I made a trail angling from the spring up toward the southwest corner of the land, and in the snow I discovered that deer are using it! I followed it up and found this nice shot halfway up the west hill. That tall stump is the same one you can see in the middle distance of the west hill shot above.


And here I'm near the southwest corner looking back northeast over the land, down the west hill and up the north. The snow up here was almost a foot deep. Some winters it gets as deep as four feet.