After coffee and some delicious home-baked apple muffins, we hit the road for a couple of not-too-far-away nature-y places.  First, the Alder Bottom Wildlife Management Area – where I took a very random assortment of pictures.

Northern Crescent

Big Old White Pine

Blister Beetle

Bear Scat

This picture was just down the road from the parking area:

Next stop was Chautauqua Gorge.

I take way too many pictures of reflections in the water… or shadows in the water…

…or leaves in the water.

And then there are the rocks…

The forest provides lots of interesting images, too.

Running Strawberry Bush

Christmas Fern

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Turtlehead

Witch Hazel

Also Witch Hazel

Lichens

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We also drove up to Luensman Overview Park – just for a look, not for a hike.

On the way back to Kat’s for dinner, followed by “art crimes” we stopped by a beaver pond on Stebbins Road. I took a lot of pictures, but got stuck in the processing on this one:

It’s upside down.

Then I turned it Black and White, just for fun:

There are many more pictures from that place… but that’s all I’ve processed so far…

Roast Beef dinner followed by collage-making rounded out the evening. (Maybe I should scan/photograph my masterpiece…)