Rocks in a car park

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We’d been for a walk at the fairly recently opened (2016) Hollowbrook Trail, which turned out to be shorter than I’d anticipated. So we had to find somewhere else to meet our daily walk requirements. I chose to go to our town park: Leonard Wagner Memorial Park.

It’s a fairly short walk in the woods around the playing fields, and as we were returning I noticed these large rocks at the edge of a parking area. I like rocks (which is just as well as there are large numbers of them in Putnam County – Just ask anyone who’s tried to dig gardens) and I particularly liked the textures of these and the way they curved through the frame.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3

Rose on our dock

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This rose grows in a pot on our dock. I liked the pastel color of the rose and the muted greens of the leaves. I also, perhaps strangely, found the rust on the white railing appealing. All of this set against the blurred blue of the lake in the background.

Taken with a Sony Alpha A77II and Tamron AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.

Another lake

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I seem to be posting a lot of pictures of river, lakes and ponds at the moment, so I thought I’d throw this one in too.

My wife was a away for a week. It had been a cold, gloomy, rainy day and I was feeling thoroughly miserable. Then the rain stopped, the clouds dissipated, and the sun came out bathing our lake in this gorgeous light. I grabbed the nearest camera (which turned out to be on my iphone 5s) and dashed outside to get a picture before the light changed. I could have waited a bit longer and found a better camera, but I’m glad I didn’t as the light only lasted a very short time.

Taken with an iphone 5s.

Another walk in the woods

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We went for another walk in the woods yesterday, this time once around Pelton Pond (see picture above) and then down the Roaring Brook Trail for a while. All told it took about one hour 45 minutes. When I’ve been here in the past I’ve seen signs of beaver activity (e.g. gnawed trees), but now I see no evidence of beavers and their lodges are falling apart. I guess the beavers have relocated permanently. That’s a pity because I’ve never actually seen one.

It was a sunny day with temperatures in the mid 70s and it was a very pleasant walk. But as is often the case you mostly see the usual trees, boulders, stone walls etc. I’d been reading an article about taking pictures in the woods and one of the things it recommended was to keep a lookout for splashes of color, which is what I did.

And I found these two brightly colored fungi.

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I loved the deep reds of the first one.

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I found the second one on top of a hollowed out log. It doesn’t seem likely that it got there in the natural course of things and imagine someone must have placed it there (possibly to take a picture as I was doing). I wasn’t the one to put it there, but I was happy to take advantage of its placement.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.