[Journal entry for October 29, 2016]. In the late afternoon, while at the Pond Road Middle School in Robbinsville New Jersey for a contra-dance, I walked around the Eagle Pond Outdoor Nature Center. This park follows a small stream called Miry Run that meanders through hardwoods. I walked down to the stream and followed it for a while, and then bushwhacked over to a bicycle path that starts behind the school, taking it as car as Combs Road. It passes a large open field of fall-tan grass, with recently planted maple saplings, now in their fall colors, and is surrounded by colorful woods. The path parallels the stream, which opens into broad cattail marshes. The marshes were lit by the setting sun, as were the hardwoods around them, and were very pretty. I stood at the highway bridge for a while, above a beaver dam, admiring them. Among the wildlife I encountered was a woolly bear caterpillar. I watched it creep across the pathway, but when I touched it, it curled up into a hairy orange ball for protection. 1:00.