Maggie hasn't had much chance to tell you what she thinks lately. She likes the nice weather and going for more walks. Today we went to two trails in Manistee. One is a nature trail that I hike about once a year, and the other was brand new to me. It's shorter, but has a lot of variety. I really like new hiking spots!
I had a hard time picking the pictures for today, so it's just a mix of stuff I liked.
I love the light coming through the hole in this old fence post.
This is a sign on the new trail. It's a short loop on lower ground, with a cross trail in the middle that follows, take a guess, a ridge.
This was a surprise of tone. As I came to the top of the ridge and just before the trail turned to follow it, this mix of white birch and maples with the light blue sky behind was just so bright that it seemed memorable.
One really large white birch tree had such interesting patterns on the bark that I had to take its picture.
Tomorrow, large trees!
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