The kids were at Grandma and Grandpa’s for the night, and Christine and I had a couple of hours of daylight to go for a walk somewhere before darkness fell.
My problem was trying to think of a place to go. Christine is running all over the parks throughout the region. She is always at Green Lakes. In the last week she has been to Highland Forest and Clark Reservation. The canal is too boring. Beaver Lake is too far away. The Conservatory is too wet. I didn’t have many choices, but it occurred to me that she hadn’t been to Oxbow Falls park, so I invited her to accompany me on a small walk in the woods there and she accepted.
The walk is only 1 mile and it is mostly old growth with a lot of vines on the trees, but at least it was something different for her to see. The 2 small-but-tall falls weren’t flowing at all, which is fine, because you only stand over them anyways and there is no way to fully appreciate them. We continued west and made our way around the park trail.
About halfway through the walk, on the northern portion of the trail, after the trail abruptly turns from northwest to east, there was a large tree of interest to our left that might one day be an interesting subject … thus my making a note of it here.
The footing was a little slick in spots, but not so much so that we couldn’t find our way without falling.
The only spot that offered a small photographic opportunity was the northeastern edge of the trail the butts-up to Clockville Creek, which was flowing as strong as I’ve seen it (in my very limited number of visits). I took a few images that were worthy of my taking out the camera, but not worthy of bothering to change lenses. The light was low, so I turned on the IBIS and captured a few handheld 25mm exposures of 3 different scenes at 1/3 to 1/2 sec. I liked this image with the tree in the foreground the most.
