Note: There is no Demon Ball of Bachelor's Grove....
The picture below was taken on September 21st, at Bachelor's Grove with John and Marion. We were walking from the cemetery west towards the clearing, and this yellow growth caught Marion's and my eye a bit off the path. We said 'what is that?' and John immediately replied in a deadpan fashion 'that's a Demon Ball'. I swung around a tree and snapped a quick shot of, and then formed a little plan in my head to make up a Legend of this Demon Ball to post here. Oh, I'm such a prankster!
I was looking through my pictures later, and there's this weird little... thing in the DB picture? I haven't posted it here yet because I have been wracking my brain. At first glance it's probably a sparrow or something, but the tail isn't right and I see no birdie feets? The colors could also be right for a chipmunk of something, but again, tail is wrong, plus that would be one emaciated chipmunk, because you can see light coming through between the body and the tree. I don't know what it is, just what I believe it is not. Any ideas?