After a day or two of on-again, off-again rain, I went to the SW Gate of the Woods at 8 pm to see what the Woods looked like. The SW quarter is one large shallow lake with the higher dune, an island surrounded. Water was flowing rapidly out through the dam; but water from the northwest ponds and cattails should continue to flow into the southern Woods and keep a large area of 20 acres or more inundated for a substantial time.
Along the southern boundary north of the northeast corner of the old trash station, one or more of the breaks in the construction erosion fence has allowed a coating of red clay muck to be deposited in the Woods making the footing in the Woods slippery in places.
Leaving the Woods along the Main SW trail a large owl flew silently ahead of me. As I emerged through the gate, there was a lovely end of day sunset sky of blue with white clouds lined with gold - the clearest skies today.
I wonder if floating rafts of pecan nuts later produce crescent shaped clusters of young pecan seedlings where the nuts are deposited by retreating water.
A few dozen early but full-sized green persimmon fruit, pecans and walnuts are beginning to show up on the ground.. likely dropped by squirrels(?)
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