My Hike At Island Lake

Today I have more scenery pictures for you. Normally pictures like these would end up being seen by my eyes only. This top picture shows a strong downward slope on the trail. It's something that I've never been able to capture before. I've felt bad until now that it might not be seen by anyone but me.

Before I go on with my story I want to mention the fact that I haven't been able to visit your blogs much the past two days. It's the same reason I'm not showing a few things here that I want to right now. I'm having a problem with limited time because of interference from the outside world right now. This happens every once in a while right now. I hope to remedy this soon, but I just don't know what's going to happen.

Going out to see nature and reading your blogs goes a long way towards giving me the kind of relaxation that each of us desperately needs. It's a huge problem when I can't do them both. I'm able to write for a total of three blogs when I have even a small amount of time. But without that time, I have to pull myself back a bit. Writing is easy and fun when I have the time, so I try to at least get that much in. So for now, I'll bring you this beautiful scenery.

This place is the beginning of a trail that is full of pine trees. All of that green gives it a feel as if spring is already here. The orange looking color on the ground is a blanket of pine needles that have dried from being there so long. The time of year makes all of these colors brightly pop out.

I didn't see any animals on this particular trail, but I heard them all through here as I walked along. There were birds of so many different types. I'm not good at identifying birds by their sounds, no matter how much I try, but I can tell when I'm hearing different kinds. There were very many different kinds. It was an absolutely beautiful sound.

Here's a clearing at the edge of the trail I was on. I was in the woods looking out. Even though you can't see them, there are several trails on the other side of this clearing. Each trail goes off in another direction into the forest. There were only so many hours in the day, so I could only travel the one I was on. I'll be back there hopefully soon. I need to find those noisy animals.

I wasn't going to include this last picture because I like to keep it to three. It's one of my favorite pictures, but it also shows the parking lot. I don't usually like showing things like that in my nature pictures. But this might give you an idea of how peaceful even the parking lots are at Island Lake Park. If you search a bit, you can even see a little bit of my truck in the picture.

This is such a nice relaxing place. It has helped me to just write this post. Tomorrow is the beginning of the week, and I'll bring you the earlier promised squirrel pictures. I'm going to do it in a different way than I ever have before. Some of you will like it and some of you won't. The squirrel's behavior is all worth it though. This was a very amusing squirrel. See you then!