Lewies Blog

So today I felt a little cooped up. I had been in the house all day and I needed to go out and do something. I grabbed the camera and left the house. It was a very bright day outside. The sky was a beautiful shade of blue and there was a gentle breeze. I could hear the sound of lawn mowers in the distance.

I headed on down past the church towards a well known path into the woods. I wasn’t too far down the path when I looked down and noticed a watch. I picked it up and it had the correct time. It was a timex watch. The face had some dirt on it, but it was still working and didn’t have any other damage. I realized that I had just found some time. I pocketed the watch and continued on my journey.

I would keep running into a lot of spider webs. Eventually I picked up a stick and started waving it in front of me as I walked. It worked half the time, but at other times I was still covered in webs. It gave me a jittery feeling every time it happened. I would keep stepping back and brushing everything off frantically in case there were any spiders on me as well.

I started smelling smoke and found a hole full of ashes. It looked like a stump was burnt out of the ground. Parts of the ground were still smouldering underneath and I could feel heat comming from it. I tried to stomp on part of it, but it seemed to only make things worse. I saw more smoke comming up and got the feeling that I was only feuling what was underneith. I heard some people comming and got out of there.

Many trees caught my eye on my little adventure. Most of the trees are small, but the really big ones are beautiful. They are usually littered with many bumps and broken branches. Just looking up at them makes me feel very small compared to everything else. Its beautiful to see the leaves rustling and feeling a sense of nature everywhere around you.

I arrived at an area that my wife and I went swimming at a couple summers ago. It was great at the time because the water was much deeper and cleaner. It was well secluded. Today the water is low and polluted. It has a blue hue to it. A few kids on ATVs and Motorbikes ran through the area tearing up the little beach that was there.

I like the natural look of hollow trees. They are beautiful to look at. Someone had the nerve to spray some bad grafiti on one of these trees near the swimming hole. This is just done in really bad taste. It is a sad sight to see today. It angers me to see such horrible deeds. Memories are the only good left of this place.

Most of the flowers in the woods were bright yellow. I saw many butterflies, dragonflies and even some wasps playing in the myriad of flowers. I got a picture of a wasp pollenating one of them. I slowly got closer and closer until I could see it pretty well. I was also on guard in case it started to fly. I didn’t want to be stung in the middle of the woods.

I was fortunate enough to get up close enough and take a picture of some painted ladies. I got a yellow one down by a make-shift dam. A blue one was also found over near a construction site on the edge of the forest. I seem to have better luck with the blue ones as they don’t fly away when I get too close and they slowly open and close there wings for me.

I came to an area being developed for a new community. One saying around my county is “As long as there are trees, there will always be development”. It is sad. When I came up on the cleared land, I saw someone running around on his ATV around a water trap. He was really enjoying himself and spinning out on the turns.

After I crossed the barren land, I reached the woods again and started finding junk. There were many old tires in the woods. I found three of them together near a dried up river bed. Sometimes I get the feeling that these tires just grow in the wild. No one seems to appreciate the forest around here. I continued walking through the woods until I found a path.

Vines are beautiful I like to see them in all different sizes twisting around trees and climbing. It reminds me of dancing for some odd reason. Unfortunately a few vines will cut into trees and strangle them like a python does to its victim. If the vine dies away after this, you will sometimes be left with a really interesting tree formation.

I got home and emptied my pockets. Besides picking up the watch, I also found some pine cones of different shapes and sizes as well as some acorns. I took a few pictures and then started working on all the the pictures I had just taken. I started to adjust the brightness and contrast on my pictures to pull out the rich colors of the forest. I even cropped a few pictures as well.

Tags: Walking, Forst, Woods, Photography, Boredom, Adventures

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