I was skiing at Odana Golf Course today and enjoying 25 degrees for a change. I was really warm, actually, and the sun peaked out for a good part of my ride. The only activity were a few singing cardinals and the stories of night life left behind in rabbit, muskrat, and fox tracks near the ponds. This image was my favorite of the day, a honey locust seed pod leaning on a white pine cone. These were a few feet from the track, far from trees in any direction. Both have very small seeds encased in a woody skeleton, and I wonder how long they will have to decompose or how much weathering they need before the seeds escape to the soil. Will that happen by the end of this coming summer? Will it take several years? If left alone, who can say, but the lawn mower will likely shred them both if they stay put for another month.
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