Our next leg - Elkton, MD to Northeast, MD - was put on hold again this week due to inclement weather and lack of maps. Ordering maps from the MDT organization is a bit of a black-box, snail-mail operation... hard to tell if anyone is on the receiving end and no idea if and when they'll be shipped.
A mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow hit northern Delaware Friday night into Saturday, leaving a crusty, white carpet on the landscape. We took the opportunity to hit the gym, and then I ventured out on a whim to crunch may way around the David English Trail, a couple-mile loop in White Clay Creek state park. Beautifully quiet in the woods today. White-throated sparrows hopped around the underbrush and seemed unusually tolerant of my presence - I could almost reach out and touch them on occasion. Chickadees and titmice chittered about, and the occasional cardinal glowed like a lightbulb against the white background. I managed to get a distant, fuzzy pic of a pileated woodpecker working his way around a dead tree. It's not unusual to see or hear pileateds around here, but I don't often get close enough for a picture.
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