Sunday, October 25, 2015

October 15


Today was another perfect day for simply going anywhere to appreciate the best of this season. The temperature rose to 60 degrees, and there was no wind or clouds at all, giving the sky a nearly cerulean blue color.

The trails of Moore State Park are now covered in leaf fall, and they crunch beneath your feet when you walk, yellow maple leaves, brown oaks, mottled specimens of hickory, ash and beech. The air is tinged with the smell of tannins, and though the majority of leaves have yet to fall, there is thinning of the canopy so that sunlight now enters throughout, creating a warm glow to the woods.

The Old Brigham Road is especially nice, again with leaf fall enough to cover the way. The road here is long abandoned, lined with mountain laurel on both sides, still deep green as if indifferent to the changing of the seasons.

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