Recent content by bobpbx

With today's technology, the danger of not even finding my body is minimized. There is a feature on I phone called "share my location". It's the last row on every contact I have. It lasts for as long as I want.

Regarding Wooley swamp, I had my grandson (14) amazed a couple weeks ago. We were talking about someone who was walking in the woods at night, and they were scared to death. I told him that I personally feel safer in the deep woods than I do on a suburban street. I said that once I'm in deep, I...

I don't think I want that. I like overall control. I'm not keen on sitting here talking to my computer.

Good info.

Here's the size compared to my hand. I have a feeling this is all only temporary, that they won't last. But wouldn't it be odd if they all grew to 12' feet?

Yes, same site. It's just that some are a lot larger than the others. Here's a wide view of same site. And these were on both sides of the creek as far as my eyes could see.

Here's a phenomenon I've seen before. This is Rhynchospora alba. The seeds were always there, just waiting for this fire.

This was on the other side of the tracks, the first photo. I walked back up the branch that flows from the RR (second photo).

To me, the big question is, why there? There were easily over a thousand. Could the RR have something to do with it?

I'm going with Catalpa. What say you?

I just remembered something. I found a population of the rare Populus heterophylla in Cape May. When I told the office about it, they knew of it. Maybe there was a lot of it in the Tulpehocken watershed in the past. Sounds crazy, but maybe that's what it is. Here's a photo I took of it. Common...

I may go tomorrow to see if this puzzle can be sorted out, but I'm sure you did not mean to actually "walk the complete length"?

I actually did find Paulownia this past Spring on the pristine Bartlett's Branch in Bass River after a fire, but I looked at the photos I took yesterday, and made the determination that these are not the same plant. Here's the photo below, and below that is what I thought was pokeweed just 50...

I wonder if it's pokeweed. Also, I wonder if in the very distant past the fires of old had many pioneers coming in, and it took this extreme ground-burn to crack old seeds from up to 100 years ago or more.

I can't see them having that shape 'and' so large at one time Ron. Plus, the main veins are not the same. On Smilax they curve to the tip. Maybe Tom (Oji) has an idea. He usually does. Maybe it's Paulownia or the start of Catalpa.