A big trunk trailing behind a smoke-belching John Deere slid quickly past.
But a forager for a harvester ant species among those common in the southern United States usually follows a long, chemically marked main trail, or trunk trail, out into the world before branching out on its own in search of food, then returns to the trunk trail for the trip back to the nest.
Lightning sent down its white spider legs outside the boxcar doors and crawled up the pine trunks, trailing fires.
IT IS with heavy trunk and trailing roots that Banyan, this blog, folds up its branches and leaves.
For want of that the shaking leaves have faded almost lily white, while downwards from the trunk hang ivy-trails a-sway to prove the breathing of the waterfall.
On the side of the trunk nearest the trail, for example, grew a lush, inch-deep patch of moist, green moss.
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was the moment I decided there was nothing I could do to make a taxi appear at the Trunk Bay snorkeling trail on St. John.
Water activities such as snorkeling (Trunk Bay has an underwater trail), scuba diving, sailing, windsurfing, and fishing are popular, and there are several hiking trails.
I had by now cracked the Rennsteig's code, which is to follow the white Rs painted on tree trunks, even when beautifully prepared trails entice you left or right on to the other 1,000km of paths.
