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Yesterday, my grandson and I walked down an abandoned railroad track to an also abandoned farmstead in a forest that had grown up around it since it and the farm’s fields were abandoned; a tanglewood, lots of Asian Bittersweet and other vines twining up and twisting into the trunks of saplings and young trees. He and I thoroughly explored the house. I found this owl, a candle, inside the purse, among the other debris. One large room must have been the original cabin, its walls were built of heavy 8 by 4 inch wooden beams with mortar between, the rest of the house built onto it. There was also an old barn, and a younger building that had almost completely collapsed.

Daily walk, pilgrim’s progress: 5,907 steps, 2.3 miles.