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Trail Wood5.09 Earl Plato

Edwin Way Teale and wife Nellie were in love with Trail Wood. He quoted the famous Ralph Waldo Emerson who expressed in the words: “Thank God I live in the country!”
From his log of February 22 Teale wrote as follows: “ New snow covers the frozen slush this morning in another of those abrupt reversals of the February weather. The birds are waiting for me when I shovel out open patches and scatter seed densely across them….”
February 23 “ The night of the fox. What did it do? What adventures did it have? About half past nine on this clear winter morning, I set out over the snowy fields on a little adventure of my own. I begin following the shifts and windings of the fox’s trail, reading as I go the story of activity that was hidden by the night but is recorded by paw prints in the snow.”
Writer’s note: I will share Teale’s walk as he follows the tracks of the fox. It will be several articles in total