Baby Cedar / by Dave Hileman

Once again in the Merchants Mill Pond State Park, near to the spillway, is this young cedar robed in rusty orange and surrounded by a thick coating of duckweed - in not to be believed - green. There is also an alligator in these waters two or three, at the northern edge of their range. We did not see one on this day but they are there, said the ranger, and they are pretty big full grown adults.