OMG! Trimble Community Forest

 Had a great three hour visit at Trimble Community Forest.  Got a little bit of a late start as I chose to sleep-in (until 6:30 ooooh, ahhh) and had to go get the dead lawn mower from the repair shop.  But got there a little before 10:00AM.  Took the truck as it looked like it might be hard to find, and its hard to look at roadmaps while your on the bike.  Also, I had concerns how much of the roads would be gravel.  Gravel roads on a street cruiser are a little tricky.  As I suspected, several roads were gravel.
 Was an interesting start to the visit.  I had barely started down the gravel path when a little white car flies by, sputtering and kicking up gravel.  He wasn't able to make it up the hill with sputtering and spinning.  He backed back down the hill, doing a Dukes of Hazard move to turn around, nearly ending up in the ditch.  He was cussing out his girlfriend, the car, his empty gas tank, etc.  I had just filled my lawn mower gas can, so I offered it to the guy.  He was very polite to me.  The extra gallon and half of a gas got him up the hill and on to better places (I hope!).  I also had a deer doing a lot of huffing at me as I was packing up to leave the truck.
 The section of the forest I visited is also the land lab for the local Trimble school district.  Several oil/gas storage containers along the path.  Every now and then some odor but not much.  Also, ne evidence of leakage.  I do hope the Trimble schools take full advantage of such a cool site!
 The first part of the walk was along a small creek.  Lots of flies, glad I had the DEET.  Also lots of butterflies.  I was totally shocked by the large number of commas I was seeing.  Normally I see one or maybe two a trip.  I had probably six in the first 100 yards of the walk.
 There is also an upper section of the site, the trail to the upper section blocked by a fallen white oak.  Climbed over the oak and am glad I did.  Picked up five additional species beyond the oak, two of which were new to the BBY.  For the day I had five new species for the BBY: Banded Hairstreak, Hoary Edge, Peck's Skipper, Little Glassywing, and Great Spangled Fritillary.  The Hoary Edge was a lifer for me and one I have been hoping to run into for the past two years.  For the day a total of 25 species, the best one day total so far!  129 individual butterflies, second best one day total so far for the year.
 Also saw a lifer dragonfly along the small creek, Arrowhead Spiketail.  I love the arrows along the top of the abdomen!

Banded Hairstreak

Peck's Skipper

Hoary Edge

Silvery Checkerspot

Arrowhead Spiketail

 Got back to the truck and was totally saturated in sweat.  Wished I had brought an extra t-shirt.  Wrapped the shirt around the passenger seat and rolled the window down so it could sort of dry before I stopped for lunch.