At Rosepoint Cottage, Chardon, Ohio

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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

Liberty Park, Twinsburg, Ohio, Along the Buttonbush Trail

Lichens and moss abound in Liberty Park, which has two buttonbush swamps.


Mossy log


Today's dense fog began to lift just as I arrived around 11am.


Ugh! The trails were very muddy, and I slipped and got muddy knees!

The boardwalks were even more slippery with a thin film of wet moss and assorted wet leaves on them.  You don't want to slip there, as the mud and standing water on either side were several inches deep!

The sun trying to burn through the lifting fog.


A blind of some sort, though how one enters it, I don't know!

Arrowhead Orchard, Paris, OH

Stopped at Arrowhead Orchard on the way home today.  Got honeycrisp apples, homemade apple dumplings, and peanut brittle!  I love that place!

 

Sunday Hike at Silver Creek Metro Park

Fall foliage along Silver Creek


A very distinguished White Oak


A praying mantis along the trail, this one gold, compared to the green praying mantis we saw two weeks ago.


Garter Snake


A barn along the Chippewa trail


A lovely pond and favorite breeding place for dragonflies

Hike at Goodyear Heights Metropark

Alder Pond


Carpet of leaves along the trail


Pumpkins along Route 43


Have you got your Halloween Pumpkin lined up yet?

Firestone Metropark, Redwing Trail

The Redwing Trail is an easy hike along a 1.2 mile path


Cardinal on Bridge over the Tuscarawas River


Maple Leaf


Tulip Poplar Leaf


Chipmunk blends in well.


Great blue heron keeps an eye out for fish.


He also keeps a wary eye on me.


Hiker in red walks beside Little Turtle Pond.