Looking east along 101 toward Lake Crescent from the Kloshe Nanitch Lookout 👀

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The view from the Kloshe Nanitch lookout on a bright afternoon in early autumn. Looks warm and still, but it was windy and cold 🌬️🥶

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Decisions, decisions 🤔

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Couldn't pass this skeleton of a tree without stopping for a souvenir 🩻🌳

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Souvenir from the Kloshe Nanitch Trail

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Here's that *Araneus diadematus* (https://w.wiki/NjG) specimen on a different day, still hanging around the back of the woodshed, still without a proper web. This went on for more than a week before she finally disappeared.

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*Araneus diadematus* (https://w.wiki/NjG) are everywhere here in autumn, but this particular specimen had the most pronounced abdomen I've ever seen in this species. She hung about the side of the woodshed for days, barely moving and without building a proper web. Very odd 🤔

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The maples out back look glorious and shaggy with their lichens in the summer sun 🌳☀️

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Like the gaping maw of Shai-Hulud

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Finally captured the tiny orchids of *Goodyera oblongifolia* (https://w.wiki/EJZu)

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