Nice morning

It was a nice morning for a walk except that the mosquitos are starting to come out.  They weren’t too bad this morning unless you stopped walking and then they attacked so I kept walking most of the time.

 

I did stop long enough to take a picture of this dead tree at the picnic area.  My tree expert Nephew, Darren tells me that if a tree gets too much soil around the base of the tree or too high up the base of the tree, it will cause the tree to die for some reason.  The picnic area is one place on the ranch that floods almost every time we get a heavy rain so a lot of top soil gets left on the ground at the picnic area and over the years, the base of the trees get more soil than designed and they die.  This had to be a pretty tree years ago.