The annual slow down in photographing has begun with the diminishing afternoon light; this first image is from last year and is a study in focal planes.

The second is an example of a hunter’s blind, found by accident on a walk beyond the beaver bog. We would never have found it except for the wads of yellow tape the hunter used around the trees along the trail (to assist in finding it in the dark, we imagine). I would have thought a hunter would have used some subtle means of marking, such as in the tradition of the Indian hunters of old (a broken twig or two; a unique scuff on the ground?).