Since we turned our clocks back to standard time, I have to watch myself or dark will descend before I am ready for it. Some days I have barely started my trail walk when some photo opps present themselves, and I don't have enough light to get a good shot. Here is one example: Two things …
Could we ask for more?
The day dawned with fog which gradually lifted during the 2 1/2 hours I wandered the trails at Holden Arboretum. After snapping the picture above, I headed down the trail toward the gingko tree. Eager to find out if it was finally dressed in the rich golden hue I remembered from previous years, I was delighted …
I take trail walks because…
Part three of my three part series from the Holden Arboretum My top five reasons for trail walking I love to be outdoors, yes, even when it is cold and snowy (Although not so much when the weather turns hot and humid). There are amazing sights to be seen along the trail...and with so many parks …
Trees
Part one of a three-part series from Holden Arboretum Gingko treeWhen I was a young girl, the home I lived in, the big white house my grandparents built in 1907, was framed by sycamore trees. These trees were one of the dominant features of that property and the focus of many of my lasting memories of those …
Autumn is rapidly advancing…
...but there is still wonderful fall color for us to enjoy! Do you have time for a short trail walk in Holden Arboretum? It's an easy one. Just click on one of the pictures and stroll through the photos I captured on my trail walk today. Take a close look at the sugar maple tree and compare …
Late afternoon trail walk
Another post for my "Color Me Autumn" gallery I started down the trail around 4:30 pm, while there was still plenty of light. I caught up with my friend Kathy a short distance down the trail, and we walked together for a little while. That's when I took the picture at the top of this …
Splendiferous
Trying to think of a good word to describe the view from the top of the Emergent Tower at Holden Arboretum, I've settled on splendiferous. I wasn't actually sure it was a "real" word, so I checked the dictionary and discovered that it means, extraordinarily or showily impressive. Its origin is splendor + i + …
Unwrapping gifts
Color Me Autumn...Again and Again! Today was a perfect day to wander the trails in the Arboretum and marvel at God's amazing creation. Each turn in the trail revealed another amazing sight... many multi-colored gifts. Because you weren't there, I brought home a few "gifts" to share. Click on the sugar maple at the top, then imagine you are …
Trailwalking in Chagrin River Park
More photos from my Color Me Autumn Collection I was wishing I had dressed for winter when I decided to take a trail walk in Chagrin River Park yesterday, but despite the drop in temperature, it still felt good to get out on the trail. For the first time in weeks, I snapped some pictures of …
Can you believe…
This sugar maple tree at Holden Arboretum is one of my favorite trees. Can you believe how quickly it has changed over the past few weeks? Here is what it looked like last October. If the weather cooperates, I will head out to the Arboretum this weekend and take a picture exactly one year after the one above. Why …
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 