It's been a few years. I need to go back for new photos. These two show ants using the advancing mossy shade of adolescent maples. Grasses in the asphalt cracks make dams to slow water and collect organic debris. The second is a closeup of the ant highways that tunnel under moss and accumulated leaf duff.

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 There must have been a grandmother maple nearby as they form the dominant tree species at the current stage of the #rewilding.

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 A straight line of closely spaced sapling maples twice as tall as me paralleling the curb at the intersection of it and the asphalt. A groundcover of seedling maples sprouts beneath their dappled shade.

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