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Woodland Structures 2

This may be an old tree stump but I bet it is home to some woodland creature at night. Sometimes at night, I think about the woods I may have walked that day and imagine it after dark. It seems pretty scary to me. I give my brother credit for backpacking by himself and camping overnight.
Depending on the park that I go to, some of them are pretty deserted during the week. Cell phone and pepper spray and hope for the best.....sometimes I wish I were a man.

At the Car wash.......

Liam, at the car wash...well what else do you do on a Saturday when your football season is over?

Woodland Structures

Fogged In

Fog horns on the river at night or in the evening are not unusual but rarely do I hear them during the day. Everyday last week, it was foggy. Even by afternoon the fog wasn't totally burned off. I was walking at Lake Erie metropark and several times heard the fog horns. Later, I drove to the lake and could just make out a large freighter (barge). Although it was 1:30pm and sunny at the park, it was still fogged in on the water. This ship is on the Detroit River, just at the mouth of Lake Erie. You can barely make it out on the left side of the picture.That is the back of the ship...the front barge part cannot be seen. I suspect they have some kind of radar but still rely on the fog horn.

Bald Eagle

I was so fortunate to see and photograph this Bald Eagle. I used a telephoto lens and then enlarged it on my PC. It was really up there. He was just circling around and around at Lower Huron Metropark near the river. If you are familiar with the park it was near Tulip Tree picnic area. I took the photo to the nature center to make sure that I was correct in my ID of this magnificent bird. He said that the eagle is a mature 5 year old. He also said a pair were seen nesting in a near-by sod farm this spring. I am so lucky to have seen this beauty but am so sad to think of Luc, the captive bald eagle at Lake Erie Metropark. He was injured and cannot be released into the wild and cannot fly free again. If you want to visit Luc, he is in an enclosure behind and to the left of the nature center at Lake Erie Metropark.

Bittersweet

As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year nears its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight. Thoreau