7/20/13 City Forest

Headed for 90 again today- but supposed to be much cooler tomorrow. We got an early start and managed an hour and three quarters in spite of the weather and the deer flies. Kelley was happy to be out after spending yesterday laying around the yard after  showing no interest in a walk around the neighborhood.


This fungus was 4 or 5 inches across

A hungry wasp

A Yellow-collared Scape Moth - there were a lot of them about which was interesting as I have only ever seen one other and it was in a different area.

I took a picture of this chicory because it was not the typical blue color and only later saw all of the insects

Last leg of the hike and Kelley makes do with a puddle in the trail

but we had parked at the end of Kittredge Rd. so she got to finish with the beaver pond which is deep enough to actually swim.