A Walk in the Park

Hello, my friends!

I'm sharing today at Tex's Run*A*Round Ranch.

Come on over and check out the Good Fences others are sharing too!

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So after a rainy weekend, the weather has been cool and sunny here this week...

...30's to 40's (brrrr) at night, warming to the mid 60's to around 70 during the day.

Absolutely gorgeous, bright blue skies and everything is so greeeeen!

These are photos from my nature hike from last Friday...

...a day exactly like I described above.

This small, local community park is only a few miles from my home.

I used to take my grandsons here when they were little to play on the playground,

but didn't realize that there was such a cool hiking trail!

I found out that where the gravel trail ended,

a dirt trail continued which wound around back into the woods.

A tall chain link fence encircled the whole park, right next to the trail.

Now a chain link is usually not my fence of choice...

...and this one is probably over six feet tall...

...but it didn't bother me much since there were so many wonderful things to look at,
such as this awesome tree.

 I have no idea what kind it is.
I googled "tree with branches that twist and turn" and got many different results.

I thought it looked like a huge grapevine with little fuzzy worms hanging on it.

I was quite mesmerized by it.
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A little farther down the trail I got a tiny glimpse of red popping out among the green.
The bloom cluster was about the size of a small apple I'd say...



...and I had never seen them growing around here before.

Google tells me it is coral honeysuckle...quite stunning, wouldn't you agree?
Definitely not like the kind I see in my yard.
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Continuing on down the trail...

...some squaw weed..



Google, you're so smart :)



...and a little something or other sprouting out with a lovely pinkish hue.



(I didn't google this one for some reason)

I wish I would have taken a closer look at the vines covering this part of the fence.
It appears to be common honeysuckle which is not yet in bloom.
  

I will return in a couple of weeks to see if I was right and to take in some of it's loveliness.
If my assumption is correct, the aroma will be absolutely heavenly.

I was mostly impressed by how it did a complete make-over of this chain link fence!
Finally the trail looped back around and I was heading back to the main part of the park.



These little sweeties were growing all over everywhere I looked.
I don't know their name...
...the google search came up with way too many "tiny white bell-shaped wildflower" examples.
Not one of them looked just like these.



So back to the gazebo near the entrance and ready for a little rest...

...water bottle and Jesus Calling devotional book all tucked down in my camera bag.

It had been quite a nice little walk and I was the only one on the trail...

...and it was absolutely it was wonderful!

Did I mention that sky was bright blue and everything was so greeeen?



It truly was a glorious day!