The first part of spring in Maine is the greening of the moss. Here, an old-age tree trunk gets a revived carpet of moss.

From the Smithfield plantation

The result of a logging skidder whacking a tree that got in its way.

This is one of the best examples of the bottom of a tree I have ever seen. This large tree was uprooted, perhaps within the last year, at the Smithfield Plantation conservation land in Maine.