Nice!

Indeed, actifit has not worked well for me walking. My best results are to activate it then hold it in my arms while I do stretching, jumping jacks and other shadow boxing excercises.

The alien aspen leaves! I saw those too in the Nicolet national forest! I had some guesses, based on other plants I have seen, either its a virus that affects the dna, a microscopic mite or other bug (like with our hibiscus) or its a parasite pooped from birds. If its a pooped parasite, then it should produce fruit, fruit that birds eat (and then poop), but I haven't seen any evidence of that yet.

I just did another fast google search and wasn't able to find any similar looking pictures, so this will remain a mystery. But eventually I will solve it, because that's what I do to mysteries!

Well done wandering into people's yards. If they didn't want people admiring their plants they would have xeriscaped it ;p