Out in the woods - in Missouri!

There has been a bit of a time jump since my last post! I completed my season at Big South Fork and am now back in St. Louis - and have been so busy that I still have to finish sorting through all the pictures I took during my last few weeks in Tennessee! I plan to keep posting them, and I will backdate them so that they go up in chronological order.

In the meantime, I wanted to show some pictures from a trip I took last week, here in Missouri. I drove down to visit a friend near Cape Girardeau, and on the way back I took the scenic route and stopped first at Hawn State Park, then at St. Francois State Park. Most of the leaves were gone, but it was a bright clear day, cool but not cold, and the sunlight was beautiful. If I'd had more time I would have gone on a real hike, but just walking around near the creek and the river felt really good.

At Hawn I drove down, down, down into the picnic area, which is full of pine trees - shortleaf pine, Missouri's only native pine tree. Tall, and really moving in the breeze.

There is a little trail that cuts from the parking lot over to Pickle Creek. I started with that.

Not much color except for the pine trees, but I did find some.