Some interesting mushrooms were growing by the side of the trail.

Near the trail some tree stumps were covered by thousands of swarming winged male and virgin queen ants. They were preparing for a Nuptial Flight, in which the males will attempt to inseminate the virgin queens in flight and then die, leaving the inseminated queens to establish new colonies.

Right in the middle of the trail, some animal had gathered a pile acorns, hoping that I wouldn't disturb them.

Usually you find the white blazes of the Appalachian Trail on living trees, but here a dead tree was tilted over the trail, and made a perfect blaze place.

After hiking up the hill in early autumn, I felt a bit tired, and so I laid myself down in some soft leaves and looked up at the sky through the leaves in the tree tops, and meditated on that image. For a moment I became one with nature.