Mountain Laurel is in bloom here in Central PA. This past Tuesday, Shari and I took a little ride through Rothrock S.F. On our way back to Boalsburg, we stopped off at the Filmore Trail trailhead, just off Bear Meadows Road. We hiked to the deer exclosure, just to the east of Filmore Trail, and entered throught the yellow swing gate. Once within the exclosure we followed the logging road up to the last staging area. Here there was another gate, though no easy way through for us bipedal humanoids was provided, but that was OK. We got to see what we came for. In front of us was the burn area of the forest fire from 2006. Amongst the few standing trees, some dead, some still sprouting green, the mountain laurel was starting to repopulate the burn area. Areas of green, white, and pink greeted us as we enjoyed the view and surveyed the land.