Here are a couple of pictures of Rose Lake in Hocking Hills State Park. It was an OK year for sourwood, the red in the photos. The orange are hickories, which are best when they are bright yellow, but they still stand out from the hemlock and white oak that make up most of the green foliage.
Snyderia pretzelii - 'Hanover Pretzel' tree. OK, I admit it - I rotated the picture to make it look more like a pretzel. This hemlock was in Hocking State Forest next to the Park.
PAC-MAN. The cultural phenomena that refuses to go away. It is currently all that in Conkle's Hollow Nature Preserve.
The mountain goat trail. It is kind of hard to see but it starts a little left-of-center at the bottom of the photo and veers a little to the right around the rocks. Climbing up to this point was a little difficult and a lot of fun. Each step walking across this created a mini-avalanche. Kind of like being in the Grand Canyon except that if you slip here you just slowly slide down the hill instead of dying a horrible painful death. This particular hollow is the first one west of the junction of Old Man's Creek and Queer Creek.
I took a wrong turn after hiking out of the above-mentioned hollow and ended up in Colorado. Or at least how I imagine that it looks. The hardwoods in this area were recently logged leaving the pines to battle the winds themselves. Directly behind me was a thick hemlock stand along the top of the Queer Creek gorge. It was quite a startling contrast.
These hickories (right or above depending on how the page loads) had the bright yellow that was missing from those at Rose Lake. The tree at the left or bottom is a sugar maple that I thought was a hickory because I never make notes of what I am taking pictures of and I was grouping these photos by looking at the thumbnails. Good thing I double-checked.
Sweet & Sour. A maple getting romantically involved with a sourwood.
Four photos of the view from the east rim of Conkle's Hollow.
It is hard to see in these photos, but there are so many people in Conkle's Hollow at this time of year that it is actually possible to crowd-surf from the east rim to the left rim. Rather than try that I wandered into Hocking State Forest following the best scenery until I got tired and then following horse trails back to within 30 feet of Conkle's hollow again. It was a beautiful day in a beautiful place and I couldn't be bothered to take pictures.
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