Monday, January 31, 2011

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THE WOODS IN THE SNOW

IMPS IN THE WOODS? Getting up one morning this year again, looking out at my skylight, I found myself surrounded by the milky whiteness of the fog, in a magical landscape, northern fairytale.


Here in one morning as that, you wonder if people really hesitate fantastic in the woods.
So taken by the enthusiasm of that atmosphere, I put the boots and gloves, scarf and coat, I went out for a walk in the woods with my father.
outside is below zero, the air is crystalline, light a few flakes of snow flying from a multitude of children and adults busy in bobsled, skiing and snowboarding, with all the eagerness to reach the slopes on foot or by cable car, before easing downstream.

I wrapped up to keep out the bitter cold, I follow the path through the track with my father who acts as a guide.
soon leave the area for skiers and we enter the woods, along some cottage where I noticed a few rose bushes, which stand out the red fruits, round and flat, unlike those of the wild rose, which are oval and slightly resemble the shape of a missile, here in Piedmont,
irreverently called, "grattacui "because of the stinging seeds inside, very good when dried and used as herbal tea or red pulp for jam, when they are mature, both for its taste and for the concentration of vitamin 'C' and the brilliant red color, are also used in the decorations of dried flowers.


Next to a balcony, stands a beautiful holly 'Ilex aquifolium L.' with green leaves and its spherical dark berries. E 'is an evergreen shrub, beautiful in every season but that brings us back with its colors alee Christmas decorations.

Walking on the trail, you notice how cold, snowy on the fence for weeks before, and frost on the grass on the ground, have crystallized snowflakes, and then
grown dramatically with the morning dew , carrying a white embroidery choreography.

The forest seems to be sleeping, but looking carefully you realize that some plants are alive, like a perfectly bright green ferns.

Among the species remember the small fern, Polypodium vulgare L. of the family Polypodiaceae, is also called, false licorice for its flavor. It is used in herbal medicine as a natural expectorant. If you are in the woods, you can always pick up a tender bud and chew if you have a sense of thirst, sweetening the mouth.
Still in the woods you can see long green branches of the briars, with tender fresh leaves. Strangely large leaves like those do not turn yellow and die with the arrival of winter.

What is particularly the case instead of blueberry: the quality of blueberry 'Vaccinium myrtillus,' family 'Ericaceae' completely loses its leaves leaving uncovered the green twigs and twisted bush, while the cranberries 'Vaccinum vitis idea' or 'Vaccinium macrocarpon' keeps intact its leaves, and say that they can be found at the same altitudes and in the same habitat as can be seen from the images.


Walking in the woods, the little snow crunching beneath his boots, including branches of fir, larch, pine cones, leaves of beech and pine needles, sounds are muffled, no one in the woods today but silence also has a slight sigh. Other years I went into the forest between December and February, but the snow muffled all the white light of snow hid the forest.
This winter, allowing a glimpse of the underworld and its inhabitants.
Walking, you see the signs of the path marked by two stripes of white paint and red for those who like walking.


Looking at the path you see little colored balls on the ground left by the players of the fantasy-simulated war, that I collect are small plastic balls hard with the frost that are embedded in the leaves and snow as they were part of the earth.
Later my father points out of rodent burrows among the roots of trees, people around the ice crystals were formed by the condensation of the heat that escapes from their bodies.


These holes, I see them for the first time, I had never noticed, before one of the dens, known eaten a chestnut shell, undoubtedly brought on by a squirrel and a hedgehog as a reserves for the winter, in fact, there at that height, there are chestnut trees.
Some dens have loose soil from near the long tunnels, where the animals through the woods hidden by dirt and pine needles.

I always walked this forest without dealing in detail, usually only go for mushrooms, or relax and enjoy the quiet of nature, this time my father showed me and plant names, making me see the difference between a spruce and a white. The red pine has branches with a pinkish needles and darker and thicker.

The vegetation alive, you come to a dead pine almost completely folded, probably due to a blizzard, with all the exposed roots, it seems incredible that a tree has been uprooted like that, so much the plot of the roots is dense.








Among the branches and the bark of the trees there are mosses and lichens, of different shapes and textures, very useful fungaioli that if equipped with a boxcutter without a toothbrush, can help clean up from the ground fungi.

Most are soft to the touch but tough and resilient, more able to fulfill the task ...







little further on a fir tree must have suffered and now comes with huge hump on the bottom of the trunk as if it were a sculpture, the malformations are like our scars, helps the tree protect against adversity.
recognize the difference of the bark, and pine cones of a fir tree and a larch, in addition, the larch is a plant very similar to the dress, but in fact loses its leaves, you can see from his slender body, long and straight up with its branches spogli.La bark is made up of large scale, while the cones are small, good for a Christmas composition.




Fir both red and white has a scaly bark and smaller cones closed very long, very good to poke the fire in the fireplace.


Sometimes the vegetation appears soft and supple form of a beech tree, with smooth trunks and white spotted areas that makes him look a bit like birch. On land there are his berries 'beech' that between late September and mid October to be mature, inside contain dried fruit, nuts and similar to the equally tasty, good for fresh produce and which yields an excellent oil. The dead leaves on the ground, while his buds just beginning on the plant, they begin to be noticed for their golden color. Later in an embankment under some trees you can see tufts of heather with even dried flowers of spring now passed. The path that I ended up with a "roccolo", where hunters have made a clearing, and planted on the border of low trees, including some of the rowan tree bird which has red berries in the Birds are greedy.
During the hunting season people are hiding in a hut made of wood with small slits from which they aim.

in various places on some poor forest mushroom was certainly frozen for an early frost, check here and there, all showed a 'zolfino perfectly preserved.

Just below you see a grove of birch bark recognizable from the trunk with white and some black mottling attack their many bare branches tend upwards.

view of the little snow, I never thought you could see the tracks of a hare, and I excited at the moment to photograph, we see the fine print full of hind legs, and the two front, as if the rabbit had stopped a second to catch your breath or some suspicious noise.

If in the woods with everything I saw there are also elves does not surprise me, but that day I have not had the opportunity to see some, this does not take away the simple pleasure of my findings, I have filled my heart and made me spend a day serene and full of curiosity!
The forest gives us food for every season of hospitality, shelter.
Sometimes it is these moments that enrich the soul, and we are dreaming, we realize how varied and mysterious nature, alive and pulsing around us, instead of going fast for sport, not noticing anything, or stealing for purely selfish ends and disillusionment.


I recommend as reading an old book:
the secret story of the Old Woods Youth Dino Buzzati, published in 1935, is the second novel written by Dino Buzzati. The work is in the form of vaguely allegorical fairy tale.
It was made into a 1993 film directed by Ermanno Olmi.
The film was shot in the mountain areas between Auronzo and the mountain pass of the Three Crosses.
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