Willow Trail
- Fri 14th September 2007, 11:02 pm
Ok so I don`t update my blogroll or the links on the left too much but it`s on my list of things to do. However, there is a good link there showing my hiking stats. Well, I haven`t been hiking much since Bella got out of school and I started back this week. I was hiking with my SIL and we saw the Willow Trail was open so we decided to take it. This is what the trail looked like in March when the closed the trail for 6 months. They close it for the development and habitat restoration of some bird species (it would be good if I knew which kind but I don`t). The trail is scheduled to open on September 15 but it was open yesterday and we took the trail.
Here is what we saw. When we went through yesterday, it looked much spookier and darker and scarier. We kept thinking the spider from Arachnophobia was going to drop down and get us. Of course, for my hike yesterday, I didn`t have my camera so I went back today just to get these shots before too many people have gone through the trail and it lost the look.
All through the park there are these trees that drop off cotton fluff and there is a high concentration of this stuff here in this trail. That is why I wanted to take these shots. There is so much stinkin fluff there it is really overwhelming. The combination of the fluff and the spider webs that are in there are amazing. I experimented with some HDR (I never tried it before) so that we could see the detail and the amount of the fluff. Here is my set on Flickr if you are interested. There are a bunch of them and I like quite a few of them.
