Mapping the Night Trees

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It’s been getting dark a little after 5 here.  Or about two hours after it gets dark for Bill.

Hadley (my eight year old daughter) and I spent a night last week down in the shack making a map of the trees that line the opposite shore of our tidal marsh.  Once the sun goes down they appear as black silhouettes across the horizon.  We’ve been naming them, too.  You likely won’t have much trouble finding the “Poodle Head” for instance.  Here’s our map so far: