Semi-verdant

It was to be a fairly cool day so I decided to take a walk around Morton Forest this morning. I left the house around 5:30 but it took me a bit less than an hour to get there. The sun had breached the horizon by the time hit the trail but had just risen above the first ridge as I ascended.

Some trees had leaves while others merely had buds. It was semi-verdant, I guess you could say.

The forest was alive with the songs of birds but they largely remained high up in the tree canopies. I could hear the work of woodpeckers everywhere I wandered. While I saw a few as they gracefully swooped through the air, I had no chance of getting them photographed. A robin, however, didn't flee too far in terror.

I followed the "conceptual trail" off of the Brunner(?) field having forgotten that you go down one ridge and ascend the one that the field sits atop of. By the time I got back to my car, my legs and butt were quite sore. I've got to get my hiking legs ready for a trek up north.

Regardless of the aches, it was a great walk and look forward to returning when the trees are in full bloom.