two days of pics
The question:
Sep 1 What Hogwarts house would you be sorted into?
I don't know. I don't know that much about them really. Though I'm pretty sure I don't want to be in Slytherin. I'd probably be Hufflepuff. Sounds like that'd be me.
I had a couple days of outings (yesterday and today) with Candy and with Jan and took lots of pictures:
Candy. This is returning to the Rockland Tunnel after having lunch at the Little IT Deli in Emlenton. Look at all the leaves on the ground. Fall is starting. If you stare into the woods for a while you are sure to see at least one leaf detach and drift down.
Mountainside.
Inside the mouth of the tunnel - brickwork.
We loaded up the bikes when we got back to the car and started up the hill to leave. There is only one very narrow road in and out of Rockland Station. About halfway up the hill a car had crashed into an electric pole and brought the pole down across the road so we couldn't get through. No one was hurt. The woman driving the car had 4 kids with her. I bet they won't forget that day. It looked like it would be a few hours till the repairmen could get the pole out of the way so we backed up, turned around and went back down to the bike trail, got the bikes off the car and biked in the opposite direction from Emlenton where we had gone earlier. Figured if we went an hour and then turned around it might be about perfect.
I remembered a place where you can walk a path down to the river so we did that too.
Cool markings on the riverside rocks - I'm guessing they were left by snails? Though it's weird that they don't trail off to the sides of the rock. They just begin and end on the top of the rocks.
Looking downstream towards Rockland Station.
Our timing worked put perfectly. As we were coming up the hill we were the second car to get through after they opened the road up again. What was supposed to be a 13 mile biking day ended up being a 19 mile day instead. Got home tired and exhilarated too. Didn't do that much the rest of the day except go with Dave shopping at Home Depot.
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Today Jan and I hiked at Oil Creek State Park. I'd been wanting to get back there and hike a certain section. I was on that trail in the springtime with Candy but it was very wet and muddy at that time and it seemed like late summer (our dry season) might be a good time to visit it again.
We parked beside this bridge - you can see Brownie (my car) in the background. We walked out on the bridge to have a look at the creek and Jan saw a $20 just laying there. It was kind of damp. Must have been there all night. After our hike Jan bought us lunch with it. :-)
Up the hill from the bridge there is an old cemetery. Someone had used chalk so they could read the stones better. It looks like the wife died first at age 65 and the husband put up a large stone for her and then he died a year later and someone gave him a smaller stone. I didn't check every stone there but it appears they stopped burying people here around the turn of the 20th century.
I liked this carving. Don't know what the words said.
It appeared a tree fell down and cleaved into the other tree. That was different.
This is a neat bridge that crosses the stream. They built a walkway with railing into the hillside too.
I'd like to know what this means. I can't figure out what it is supposed to be. It was on the bridge.
Another view of the bridge - this time from the walkway on the hillside.
Someone built a nice stairway here. I really appreciate all the workers who have improved the trails in these parks. Thank you.
Lacy fungus.
This tree was far from the trail so I didn't get the best picture of it but I really liked how the tree was bendy looking with all the white fungus dotting it.
Sep 1 What Hogwarts house would you be sorted into?
I don't know. I don't know that much about them really. Though I'm pretty sure I don't want to be in Slytherin. I'd probably be Hufflepuff. Sounds like that'd be me.
I had a couple days of outings (yesterday and today) with Candy and with Jan and took lots of pictures:
Candy. This is returning to the Rockland Tunnel after having lunch at the Little IT Deli in Emlenton. Look at all the leaves on the ground. Fall is starting. If you stare into the woods for a while you are sure to see at least one leaf detach and drift down.
Mountainside.
Inside the mouth of the tunnel - brickwork.
We loaded up the bikes when we got back to the car and started up the hill to leave. There is only one very narrow road in and out of Rockland Station. About halfway up the hill a car had crashed into an electric pole and brought the pole down across the road so we couldn't get through. No one was hurt. The woman driving the car had 4 kids with her. I bet they won't forget that day. It looked like it would be a few hours till the repairmen could get the pole out of the way so we backed up, turned around and went back down to the bike trail, got the bikes off the car and biked in the opposite direction from Emlenton where we had gone earlier. Figured if we went an hour and then turned around it might be about perfect.
I remembered a place where you can walk a path down to the river so we did that too.
Cool markings on the riverside rocks - I'm guessing they were left by snails? Though it's weird that they don't trail off to the sides of the rock. They just begin and end on the top of the rocks.
Looking downstream towards Rockland Station.
Our timing worked put perfectly. As we were coming up the hill we were the second car to get through after they opened the road up again. What was supposed to be a 13 mile biking day ended up being a 19 mile day instead. Got home tired and exhilarated too. Didn't do that much the rest of the day except go with Dave shopping at Home Depot.
*****
Today Jan and I hiked at Oil Creek State Park. I'd been wanting to get back there and hike a certain section. I was on that trail in the springtime with Candy but it was very wet and muddy at that time and it seemed like late summer (our dry season) might be a good time to visit it again.
We parked beside this bridge - you can see Brownie (my car) in the background. We walked out on the bridge to have a look at the creek and Jan saw a $20 just laying there. It was kind of damp. Must have been there all night. After our hike Jan bought us lunch with it. :-)
Up the hill from the bridge there is an old cemetery. Someone had used chalk so they could read the stones better. It looks like the wife died first at age 65 and the husband put up a large stone for her and then he died a year later and someone gave him a smaller stone. I didn't check every stone there but it appears they stopped burying people here around the turn of the 20th century.
I liked this carving. Don't know what the words said.
It appeared a tree fell down and cleaved into the other tree. That was different.
This is a neat bridge that crosses the stream. They built a walkway with railing into the hillside too.
I'd like to know what this means. I can't figure out what it is supposed to be. It was on the bridge.
Another view of the bridge - this time from the walkway on the hillside.
Someone built a nice stairway here. I really appreciate all the workers who have improved the trails in these parks. Thank you.
Lacy fungus.
This tree was far from the trail so I didn't get the best picture of it but I really liked how the tree was bendy looking with all the white fungus dotting it.