« Two Year Anniversary | Main | Cathy and Pat's Visit »

October 02, 2006

Hiking in Avon

A couple weekends ago, Brent and I decided to take a break from our TV on DVD obsession (yes, we're the kind of people who are capable of watching an entire season of Lost in two days)and went for a hike outside. Brent and I drove to Avon near Brent's house and went for a long hike through the woods. Hiking doesn't require a lot of explanation, so here are the pictures.

Brent:

Goldenrod?

Some sort of pod in the middle of the stem of the yellow plant pictured above:

On the trail:

Crossing a river:

I kept telling Brent the whole time we were hiking that I felt like we were in that movie Stand By Me, doesn't it look like we could have been?

Brent doing his "farmer gaze":

A really old tractor tire in the ground:

Mushrooms:

In the woods it got very dark:

Moss:

We reached a clearing where the trail picked up again:

In another part of the woods...

Spider web with dew drops:

We have no idea what this funky orange stuff is, but it was all over some of the trees in a certain area of the woods:

I forgot what this plant is called, but it's the one with some sort of milky substance inside the stem:

These pods on the side are also filled with sticky, milky, stuff:

A fence at the edge of the woods:

Spider:

Another uprooted tree:

I wonder what lives in here:

Woodpecker:

A spiderweb with a... tunnel?

We came across a path in the woods that we thought we didn't recognize even though we thought we were heading in the right direction back to where we came from. The dirt on the path looked very red:

We had remembered walking on a path with black mud. I turned around and looked behind me only to discover that from one direction the path looks red and from the other it looks black. It's so drastic that it even showed up well on film. Check out these pictures of the exact same stretch of the path but from different sides.

Red:

Black:

We came across a group of about twenty little tiny butterflies. Here are a couple pictures of a few of them:

Giant beetle:

Toad:

Grasshopper:

I love this picture of a big old tree:

I think these maybe had seeds of some sort in them:

A salamander-type thing:

Pure white moth:

Berries:

People riding horses along the trails:

Back to where we started:

Brent found a stick in the woods that he whittled into "the perfect walking stick" (his words) with his pocket knife. This large unwieldy stick has been in the backseat of my car for a couple weeks now to keep it safe. Thanks Brent.

Brent working on his stick:

After our hike, we drove to the reservoir in Avon to take a walk there.

Flowers at the reservoir:

Geese:

Reservoir:

Brent with his stick:

Stone wall in the woods:

That's all for our hike. It was a lot of fun and we plan to go again soon when the foliage is at its best. Happy October everyone!

Posted by lauren at October 2, 2006 03:44 PM

Comments

Posted by: Jocelyn at October 2, 2006 04:16 PM

Posted by: brent at October 2, 2006 05:05 PM