The Other World

I crossed the bridge I told you about yesterday, and I was greeted with this other world. There is much more snow in this other world. Most of the snow on my normal trails has melted for now, but these trails still have plenty. This is also in a very dense forest where most people avoid.

This path is very narrow, but I don't think I really captured that very well in the picture. It stays this narrow the whole way. The path stretches on for a very long way. There are many twists and turns, and many diversions along the way. There is one diversion that I just couldn't resist.

You see that sign above? How could I resist a detriment like that. I just had to follow the trail that the sign warns me about. The trail it is trying to scare me away from is a well traveled deer trail. I know because I've seen many deer using it in the past. Unfortunately they weren't using it this day, but I was going to.

I've traveled this trail many times before, and I will again. If you do a little searching on this blog you might be able to find what's at the end of this deer trail. I'm not going to tell you today though because I'll be saving that secret for tomorrow. You'll find out then why I'm waiting. I would have shown it to you today, but YouTube is down for maintenance while I'm writing this.

This is a better look at this deer trail. I really do follow it, but I'm actually not so sure I follow it til the end. I only go part way until I reach my personal destination. The trail veers off to the sides then and continues on out of sight. I'm only interested in one thing. But this is only a diversion today, because I have a bigger destination.

So instead of showing you this, I'll just turn around and head back to the main trail in this other world. It's still very small, but right now I'm headed to what I really came here for. So I had to turn around and go looking for a place where no one else goes. My hidden place. The main section of this other world. I'll be waiting there for you tomorrow.

(Sorry if this post seems like a bit of a teaser. I actually intended to have more for you in this one, but I had very little time today and I was up late trying to write my post, which coincided with a few difficulties. When I attempted to show you what comes next, I got an error because YouTube wasn't cooperating just yet. I waited as long as I could, but I had to get up early. So that part will have to wait until tomorrow. This way I'll be able to show you a little more in these combined two days. So it works out better for us all.)

The Entrance To Another World

Today I have another place that I haven't visited in a very long time. It's my bridge to another world. I think the last time I featured this place was last winter. I promised to show everyone the warmer weather view of this bridge later in the year, but I don't remember if I ever got back there.

I'll try to remember to do it this year, because what awaits us on the other side of this bridge truly is another world. On this side of the bridge is a well-traveled nature trail where so many people like to go. On the other side is a very small backwoods path that leads to a hidden river. I'll be showing you that in the near future, but today is all about the bridge.

This really is a fun bridge because as soon as I get there I feel as if I already am all alone. I can look out through the trees at a seemingly endless wilderness. I've never met another living soul on this bridge. There are very few people that take the small path on the other side either.

This is one of the few places where you can feel all alone and isolated here even in the middle of winter when nothing is hidden. I guess I forget that because this nature park is always so crowded with other people. Usually when I go out, it's to get away from civilization, and that means other humans as well. Sometimes I like company though, but this is the bridge to my special alone place.

Almost at the end of the bridge you can see how dense the forest is. In the winter it is one of the few places where you can't see very far through the trees. In the summer when the leaves are full and green this path is as dark as night. It really does feel like entering another world.

I've oddly never seen even a hint of animal life near the bridge, but on the other side I've seen some remarkable things. I saw some of my first up close deers drinking from the river that one of the branches of this path leads to. It can be almost unsettling even for me when I get to that place, because it feels so much more isolated than any other place. That makes this bridge really an entrance to another world.