Surprise!

On our hike today we encountered lots of great stuff:

these white feathery things

fungus? mold?  nope!  see below

a large spider web with a small spider and directly left another spider (seen over the water) building another web under the one on the right

two dragonflies sitting long enough to be photographed--this green one

and this one with striped wings

a black damselfly with the leaf reflected on its wing

red fungus emerging from white

beautiful leaf shadows 

inchworm

The white feathery things are actually eriocampa juglandis, commonly known as butternut woollyworms which are sawfly larvae.

Wonder what we'll find next!