Painted Turtle Pond of Nolde Forest

in #photography5 years ago

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My love @kelsnm and I have some time off together from our jobs to spend with each other so our first decision was to enjoy the beautiful weather before the rains knock the leaves down.

We traveled just down the road to Nolde Forest again, my favorite local park, but this time to a place where I had never taken @kelsnm before. The park isn’t huge but has quite a considerable area that one who isn’t native could get lost.

Painted Fish Pond on the Southern side of the park was our destination after hiking a tad bit through the dense Autumn forest. Leaves were all changing colors and the floor plants had yellowed and browned as well. A very pleasant a peaceful feeling, walking with my lovely @kelsnm in the quiet of the forest. Aside from the two groups of school students, which the voices were muffled quickly once twenty yards away or so due to the breeze and the rustling leaves and dense trees.

Spotted a frog and a turtle out on the water. But in the water, which I couldn’t capture because the glare off the water’s surface, there were hundreds of salamanders swimming and mating (?) in the water. Not sure if they were mating but it looked like it.

Perfect weather in the high 60sF but that brought the gnats out at the pond. And my blood seems to be the preferred diet of flying pests.

I enjoy the fall very much. Not as much as I enjoy it now with my love @kelsnm though.

Peace to all!

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