While there was a beautiful layer of snow on the ground at Beaver Way again this last visit, it had been sitting for a while and gotten quite difficult to traverse! The many slopes on the trail through Centennial were iced over and, as pictured above, I had to resort to some unconventional methods to get to my phenology spot.
The defining intersection of the wooden paths at Beaver Way brought something to my attention: the condition of the surrounding reeds. Though they had been beige and dry for months already, they’d never been so damaged. I wonder only if their condition was due to heavy snow, wind, animals, or even humans.
Despite the icy state of the snow, there were lots of tracks to be found littered around the bridge. While most seemed to belong to the dogs (and their humans) that frequent the trails of Centennial Woods, there were some that seemed a little more wild. The two smaller prints in the middle of the photo to the left and the nearly melted tracks going from the top right to the bottom middle, for example.