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ransitional season. Hiking around Knob Noster State Park after winter is over but before spring kicks into gear, things are monotonous but still subtlety interesting. The ground is soft and in many places muddy, but leaving the trail and striking out across-country is relatively easy as the undergrowth and ticks remain dormant. At one point I was startled by a well camouflaged woodcock that suddenly burst from the surface just a few feet away, but otherwise the excursion is uneventful. It will not be long and the area will be transformed into a lush explosion of growth as the days continue to get longer and warmer.
“History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.” - Marc Bloch
