{"id":870,"date":"2010-01-24T21:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2010-01-24T21:10:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:10:33","slug":"as-seen-in-forest-and-supermarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/as-seen-in-forest-and-supermarket\/","title":{"rendered":"As seen in forest and supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week ago I went for a hike on trails that are nearby our house.\u00a0 When I say nearby, I mean that they’re behind the houses that are across the road from us.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t had a chance to explore these trails much the last time I was on them, but I had time to go further this time, hiking uphill on something called the “College Trail.”\u00a0 This leads up the North side of the Holyoke Range, joining other trails and eventually linking up with the Metacomet-Monadnock trail<\/a>.\u00a0 I didn’t make it quite that far up, as it was late in the afternoon and I needed to get back home before sundown.<\/p>\n

I did see something I don’t think I’ve noticed on other local trails – a tree with graffiti carved in it:<\/p>\n

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The oldest carving seems to be from 1979, assuming that it was actually carved that year and not backdated by the carver.<\/p>\n

In an unrelated event, I was in the grocery store the following day, and I saw an unusual sign in the frozen foods aisle.\u00a0 This is something one hears a lot about in modern American political discourse, but I didn’t think it was available for purchase at one’s local supermarket:<\/p>\n

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There you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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