This little gem of a park (14 acres) in Cold Spring Harbor is maintained by the Nature Conservancy. It has some old growth areas with huge trees... the terrain is so steep farming was impossible. A sawmill once used the water power of the pond but is gone now, replaced by a fish hatchery. Along the trail there's a steep upward slope on one side and a steep downward slope to the pond on the other side.
Looking down the slope at a colorful mossy log.
Looking downward at another spot. Forgot to take pictures of the cathedral effect of very tall beeches, yellow birch, black birch, tulip trees, maples and oaks.
As Ovid has told us in the
Metamorphoses, animals and people CAN turn into trees. Here we have a bird (see the eye?) turning into the root of a chestnut oak.
This little gem of a park (14 acres) in Cold Spring Harbor is maintained by the Nature Conservancy. It has some old growth areas with huge trees... the terrain is so steep farming was impossible. A sawmill once used the water power of the pond but is gone now, replaced by a fish hatchery. Along the trail there's a steep upward slope on one side and a steep downward slope to the pond on the other side.
Looking down the slope at a colorful mossy log.
Looking downward at another spot. Forgot to take pictures of the cathedral effect of very tall beeches, yellow birch, black birch, tulip trees, maples and oaks. 
As Ovid has told us in the Metamorphoses, animals and people CAN turn into trees. Here we have a bird (see the eye?) turning into the root of a chestnut oak. 
3 comments:
That last shot is awesome. I also saw an old ogre with a long trollish nose peering out at the world.
This picture reminded me of the picture I want to take of the tree roots upon the rock...I just had an epiphany that on an overcast day I can use my car's headlights to help illuminate the shot, thus balancing out the background light with the foreground's shadows.
Eureka!!
I agree about that last shot - that root structure is awesome! FL has a lot of little "pocket parks" around the state that preserve unique little areas like your preserve there - thank goodness! I see that your group is wearing jackets already ....
It was a cold, cloudy day with spitting rain. We're back to pleasant weather now. That old ogre...sure it wasn't...?
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