Hiking with a Vengeance

Photo by Marianne M. Smith

Recently I went hiking with visiting relatives at Edgar Evins State Park, and remembered with a vengeance why I like to disappear into the woods.

Nature takes its time, is nonjudgmental, un-opinionated, usually quiet, and allows space for you to simply be. 

She does not scream for you to be an over-achiever, and the worst thing she delivered that day was poison ivy.

Frost had it right:  “The woods are lovely, dark and deep.”

Photo by Marianne M. Smith

I always come out of the woods different than when I walked in.



These mighty caterpillars were everywhere



And, amazingly, I have fewer words.  So this time I’ll just share some photos taken on our hike and look forward to your comments.  Or, as Thoreau said:  “Our life is frittered away by detail.  Simplify, simplify.”

Natural Bamboo

Center Hill Lake wearing away at the rock

My hiking buds Denise and Ernie Franz

Marianne M. Smith
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