Another day in the woods!

The mosquitos were horrid after the round of thunderstorms that travelled through New Hampshire this past weekend left puddles all over the forest floor, but no matter, we were out there surveying vegetation anyways. The place we went to today was beautiful. You can see for yourself from the photos. I put a few of the photos I took today on the other vegetation post. Ian found a metallic looking dragonfly hanging out on a hemlock sapling. I assume his wings were too wet to fly around, so he was taking cover until they could dry. I've included a picture, but it is not of the highest quality. We also heard a loud "thud" in the forest today. It most likely was a deer as we found scat nearby, but I can't help hoping that it was a moose as one was seen just days before on the farm (we were in the woods abutting the farm), or it could have been a chipmunk masquerading as an unidentified running brown animal - at least this time it wasn't running at us!

In other news, there is a tomato turning red on my monster of a tomato plant! It must be the all the rain. I was very excited to see the color change this weekend.