images of the week

My new favorite tool - the scythe. I'll need to dedicate an entire post to this amazing tool later. But this is what it can do in about one minute without gasoline.

While pulling cape ivy under the oaks in Long Valley (the other vegetation is mostly native blackberry returning!)

I found this interesting hairy growth under a leaf. I have no clue what it might be/come.

Highlight - I was lucky enough to get close to this beautiful kingsnake!