Capturing photographs and videos on the fly using an Iphone, we visited Fillmore Glen State Park, Moravia, New York with our granddaughter, Nia. This is the fifth post of this series. Click me for the first post in this series, “The Space Station and the Waterfall,”.
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Moss and soil held in place by roots, it is unsettling to pass this place. This entire section is unsettled and unsettling to someone with an overactive imagination, who notices nothing growing below this place, in a gorge otherwise covered in greenery.
This decade some exceptional trail stabilization work was completed. Here is a portion of the trail, near the above photograph, the bank of loose soil held in place with a stepped retaining wall crafted from wood 8×8 posts. Higher in Fillmore Glen a portion of the trail is closed where the hillside gave way 14 years ago.
Fallen
Gravity working toward disaster is seen as a constant infall, a slow rain of trees, left in place to rot over the course of a century.
Dying trees on unstable creek bank are cut before falling.
Beneath the infall, chaos, this wood sorrell took root on a shin high shale shelf among mosses. The taste of the plant is sour, leading to the name from the greek for “sour.” The family Oxalidaceae comprises 570 species. I till not venture to guess this one.
Also known as sourgrass and false shamrock, these grow on a thread of hope in a glimmer of sunlight.
Michael Stephen Wills Photography 
Great series. 😊
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good one…thanks for share
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My pleasure Map195
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What a peaceful place
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We love it there.
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I particularly like that stump! Illusion of soft enough to sit down on (though that would be be so good for the moss … )
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….and also wet and gooey. I agree!!
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I am enjoying! The fallen trees remind me of Chestnut Ridge, which I walk from time to time. These downed trees lie where they fall unless they endanger hikers or block a trail.
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The practice makes sense….there is the issue of fire hazard to consider in dry parts of the country.
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Living in Ohio, there is less of a chance of fires here because of the substantial rainfall. However, I totally understand the danger of fire from living in the more arid climate of Montana.
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