A few October odds and ends from this past weekend. Top photos are of the historic covered bridge on Dents Run near Morgantown. The sheep grazing in the adjacent field gave me odd looks while I photographed the structure, as if they were thinking, "It's just a decrepit man path with a cover. Get over it." I did get over it, but not before admiring a honking trio of black walnut (Juglans nigra) fruits. Up the road at Mason-Dixon Historical Park, I visited the old stone marker on Brown's Hill denoting the farthest progression west by the astonomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon during their historic surveying trip in 1767. Their Mohawk guides stopped them on the high bluff overlooking Dunkard Creek, near the Catawba War Path, to avoid confrontation with hostile Shawnee and Delaware tribes. Keeping company with area's historical treasures: a few gorgeous New England asters (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) still in bloom; a curve-tailed bush katydid (Scudderia curvicauda); the long, wrinkled, red-purple seed pods of the honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos); and shrimp of the woods (Entoloma abortivum), also known as abortive entoloma, an edible fungus that parasitizes the honey mushroom to form an unappetizing-looking white blob (but which supposedly has the texture and flavor of shrimp). I'll pass on the shrimp blob.