MONO MONDAY ON TUESDAY

This is the trailhead to the Ice Age National Scenic Trail which will, ultimately, cross the entire State of Wisconsin along the line that delineates the boundary between the glaciated and the un-glaciated (Driftless Area) areas that remained after the last glacial wave left Wisconsin about 10-12,000 years ago. This section of the trail lies just east of the Village of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA. YES...there were mastodons and/or mammoths right here about 10,000 years ago.

Check the images out in LARGE and let me know whether you like the B&W of Color version best. Yesterday's final count was 3-3-4 (BW/Color/toss up)

This is only 1/4 mile from my house in the village. I have walked it many times with my dogs Rudy and Vinnie (Golden Retrievers) who have personally peed on every tree between here and Mauthe Lake. We have walked all the way to Mauthe Lake on this trail which is many miles as the crow flies and more miles following the twists and turns of the moraine.

When my time on this planet is through, my remains, and those of my dogs, will be scattered along this trail next to the many oak trees in the area. I believe in recycling nutrients. I do not like the idea of sealing them up in coffins, then sealing the coffin in fiberglass  and then sealing that in concrete before burial. Seems a shame to waste thousands of years before the nutrients can be recycled.....after all, everything we are made of came from something else first. There is not a molecule in your body that was not in something else before it came to you.

The way I see it, within a year I'll be part of an oak tree and likely some of my molecules will be in acorns; a squirrel or deer or turkey will eat that acorn, a hunter will likely harvest one of them and just like that I'll be back in the system...totally recycled.