Questionnaires at Spring Brook

They had a table set up on the upper part of Spring Brook with a questionnaire about the trail, any conflicts to report in the past six months, overall impressions. I mentioned the militant hiker I "dismounted and walked around because it's the law" from a few weeks ago. l also put down that it'd be just grand if they redid the sign so it can't be interpreted as bikers should only yield to hikers with dogs and actually define "yielding" straight out of the Open Space rulebook. If you're on Spring Brook today (don't know how long the table is going to be set up) it'd be good to get as many comments as possible from us bikers.

When I left a ranger and a lady manning the table were keeping watch on the trail. As I went down the "no dogs, it's the law" section of SB a nice looking runner with a dog off leash came from the other way. I just said "howdy" and wondered if she'd get ticketed. When I saw her on the other side she said she hadn't gotten a ticket. The ranger had just disappeared and the other one wasn't a ranger. Her lucky day. I told her she was doing everything wrong: dog on the no dog part of SB AND dog off leash the whole time. She had the usual reasons (I didn't see the sign, I'm new here, nobody told me) but I really didn't care... I just wanted to talk her is all :thumbsup:

Pics of Spring Brook in the middle of our dry winter and now are included. What a difference multiple snow dumps and two months of steady rain can make on a landscape.

The first place I stopped to take a pic I waited and just listened to the birdies quietly chirping. Then I noticed there were about 30 dragonflies circling around in front of me, the early morning sun glistening off their wings. Pretty mesmerizing. Around and around they went for a few minutes and finally took off. I did get one lame pic of one...you try to get a pic of a dragonfly in flight 20 feet away

And I saw something I've never seen before---an Ellsworth Truth with vee brakes. It's true.