The first half of the property that we hiked was the half with the flagstone quarry. We didn't actually go all the way to the quarry, we'll have to explore that during another trip. This time we were focusing on the trees, but here's a photo of the path that leads to the quarry.


This half of the property also has the old hunting cabin...our Great-Great-Uncle Warner used to live here.
Craig's main observation about this forest was that it was over-run with Beech trees that are low value, and are also plagued with a disease right now that is incurable. Unfortunately most of the Beech trees on our property seem to have the disease which means they could start dying off in the next 10 years or so. This would be the main problem that we'd have to address in this forest. That being said, the forest was absolutely beautiful and everything seemed extra green today after the early morning rain...

Craig guessed that most of the trees in this forest were ~80 years old, this particular tree appears to be much, much older...oh the stories this tree could probably tell...

We thought this tree was pretty neat, look at the way the trunk is twisted. To the left are three black cherries...great trees, but growing too close together here.

There were lots of these cool little guys all over the forest... aren't they cute?? :-)

One other thing that set this forest apart from the forest across the road was the underbrush...lots of bramble and small saplings...you'll notice the difference between this and the photos in my next post.