walking the dog

yesterday, after six hours wrestling two paragraphs into shape, dog and i checked out boundary waters park over in douglas county, just opposite cochran road and campbellton --- we only did half the 7+ mile loop, and i don't think it was necessarily the best half  --- most of the forest post-dates wwii, so is not all that --- this southern red oak was the largest in the park at 19'-3" in circumference, but is now dead, slowly falling apart from the top down

some of the "trails" are more like roads, and a lot of places were nearly impassably muddy and messed up from a lot of horse traffic --- dog liked it cause it was mostly more-or-less level ground

the park abuts a purty great horse farm on the south, with beautiful pastures ---

the landscape along the river south of town is much different than it is in the southern reaches of the national recreation area where there are palisades and shoals and lots of hills ---




plus everybody in the city has peed in the river by the time it gets down that far