Cochituate State Park

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Alexis and the dogs and I went to Cochituate State Park in Natick, although I think we wandered onto the grounds of the Wayland Town Beach. Charlie got in his first good swim of the year.




Lake Cochituate is relatively late-formed and large glacial kettle. Charlie is at far left in this panorama.


Combined efforts of ants and woodpeckers--and probably the hemlock woolly adelgid and some wood decay fungi--felled this tree. Carpenter ants were still active in one of woodpecker holes.


We went to Dairy Queen on the way home.