Fall Hiking Club Route 8
It’s sunny and breezy and lightly cool starting out for route 8 today. It’s warming quickly, but stays jacket comfortable the entire trip. About the first third of the route is on the main road. I wasn’t sure how that would go, but there were very few cars really, even though there seemed to be lots of hikers out.
The clinging leaves are increasingly melting into autumn reds and golds,
a glowing accent threaded through the woods.
Wood Duck Pond isn’t even really on the route, just suggested as a bonus stop along the way.
A nearly hidden, leaf covered trail skirts the pond, opposite the wetlands trail.
From the startled reaction from two flocks of ducks I passed, I don’t think it gets much traffic.
Creepy cool cypress knees poke through shallow, murky water layered with golden leaves.
The map leaves the road next, and climbs the prairie trail.
Grasses rustle,
Whispery dry,
Casting seed,
On the warming breeze.
Then the final section winds back through the woods over the Bush Creek Bridge, collecting the tumbling leaves.
Rambling ... 