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I was driving a few days ago and saw a parking area for a hiking trail, and on the side of the trail was what was left of the farmland of an old house that has likely been gone for the past hundred years or so. While the house is completely gone, and all that remains is a stone foundation and cellar, surprisingly, the woods haven't reclaimed the fields, and a grass field with one large old tree still standing right at the site of the old cellar, and was likely at one point in front of the old house that at one point stood there. I looked on the edge of the field, and noticed old 1800's rusty farm equipment laying in the woods. There were also many stone walls that at one point probably kept livestock from escaping. I heard birds chirping from the trees, saw deer tracks through the muddy soft ground near the bottom of the sloping hillside that leads away from the old foundation. Around the foundation were many thorns, and in front of the foundation were daffodils could of potent...

Today I decided to go out mountain biking on a fairly short trail known as the Bicentennial Trail near my house. The first thing I noticed was that there were many small leaves on the trees, especially on the beech trees, and also leaves now growing on many small bushes and shrubs. A lot of the trail was up hill, and a bit hard to ride on, especially on the cheap mountain bike I was riding today, so I ended having to walk the bike for parts of it, but that gave me more time to enjoy and look at the scenery. I ended up stopping at a rather large cliff to explore around. I walked to the bottom of the cliff, and noticed that the side of it had a rather large cave that seemed to be used as shelter for some of the wildlife, based on the porcupine droppings I noticed inside of it. I then continued biking, and had to bike through a granite boulder field, that was most likely deposited there during the last ice age. I continued riding, and as the elevation changed, I found myself in rather fla...

To get away from the stresses of finals week I decided to go to this little hidden trail that takes you to a complete secluded bend in the Souhegan River, a large river that flows through my town, and I believe feeds out into the Merrimack River. I tend to go here a lot when I am having problems, as I find it to be a very good place to examine my thoughts and let myself truly be at peace. It's a 16 mile round trip bike ride to it, which I normally take, because I like the added exercise and fresh air that riding a bicycle, typically on back roads and dirt roads, gives me. When I was at this place, I sat on the low lying dead limb of a large tree, and watched the river go by. I also walked along the river on the sandy shore of it, which was submerged by flooded water from the snow the last time I was there a week or so ago. I was happy to see the vegetation finally growing for the spring, and the plants that normally grow and cover the river bank finally starting to appear for the y...