Furnace Run Metropark, Oak Trail

Today, I hiked the Oak Trail at Furnace Run.   It was also our first dusting of snow for the year.  The teasel trees along the interstate were lovely...like little puffs of cotton.  I wish I could have gotten a photo of them.


Brushwood Pavillion


Trailhead


Furnace Run


Lots of firewood has been cut and stacked along the Oak Trail


Christmas Ferns


Moss in the snow


Memorial to Charles Brush: To all those who love as he loved, the far sky and smiling land.



And one shot of a red-berried tree at Seiberling Nature Realm, where I picked up my 2011 shield for my hiking stick, on completion of the Fall Hiking Spree Challenge.

Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve, Mentor, Ohio

Fairport Harbor Light across the dunes on Lake Erie at Headlands Beach

Elaine shot this interesting angle on some driftwood

Driftwood on Headlands Beach, Lake Erie


Late fall at Headland Dunes, Lake Erie, Mentor, Ohio

Glens Trail, Gorge Metropark, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Entrance to the Glens Trail


Multicolored sandstone ledges


Cuyahoga River, "Crooked River"


Ledges


Sand below the ledges


Cuyahoga River


Cuyahoga River


Sand and pebbles


Rush hour traffic shadows