Exoskeleton

Gazing at my potato tops this afternoon, I began wondering if it would be worth the effort to gather up the litter of pine bark detritus left behind from the woodpecker foraging and create my own mulch.  There’s quite a pile all around the perimeter of the tree, in fact the ground is starting to look like an extension of the tree.  There are huge plates of bark still remaining on the trunk, which I decided needed further inspection after hearing what I thought were bark beetles scurrying under the surface.

Post Prescott

Well…I just don’t know where to begin.  Really, it was a lot of information to take in and process for one week.

As usual, I greatly enjoyed my visit with “the m” and child, also I’m extremely appreciative that she gave up her bedroom for me last week.  The city of Prescott itself was fairly uneventful during this time, though it was quite cold, hence riding with the top down (see previous post) was kept to a minimum.