9/6/2022, NC, red L, 2:45-4:50 Soaked trails and shiny wet dripping leavesDamp mushroom scentsSun twinkles leaves and rocksSlight breezes shake drops from the canopy aboveCreek water rushing over rocks with energy and volume Browning ferns and purple Ironwood flowersSurrounded by gentle chiming of crickets, cicada rattles, drips and rushing watersFeet soaked with creek crossingsBird calls …
8/24/2022, red R, 2:20-4:10pm Space filled with rattle, chiming, chirping, tweeting, buzzing and crunching from the cicadas, crickets, birds, bugs, trail stepsA few more yellow leaves speckle pathDaddy long legs cross path so does a tiny brown-orange toadLooking up through illuminated green to the dappled speckled bright blueUnfortunate choice of stepping through the edge of …
8/16/2022, NC, red L, 3:10-5:00pm Follow the velvety black butterfly down the trailSurrounded by a soft wall of cricketsChirps, rattles and crunchy stepsBrightly dappled trail amidst illuminated greenOrange fuzzy moth perched on purple flowersDeep purple flowers and emerging orange snapdragonsTiny butterflies crossing my pathFew leaves lightly speckle the trailGreeted by soft breeze and chiming crickets …
8/1/2022, NC, red R, 9:00- 11:00? Alive with crickets, bird chirps chipmunks, cicadasGentle breezes, golden raysWild turkeys spreading expansive wings, running along trail Oh, the Prairie – the crickets, the lovely scents, the emerging flowers and rising grassesCicadas ramping up by 10:00 Fully Alive
7/22/2022, red L, 2:20-4:10pm Ebbs and flows of cicada callsGentle whooshing of grasses and leavesDaddy long legs crossing trailsChirps and chirpsBaking moisture rises out of the PrairieButterflies flutterGolden hazy sunlightVirtually no one on the trails