My Hiking Adventure!

The old farm - I lived here for 3 years when I was between 8 and 11 years old. I love that old farm. It's a centennial farm on 120 acres (the barn and other outbuildings are hidden behind the trees and the house). We had all kinds of animals, mainly cattle, and we also worked the fields. Great place to live when you're a kid. I still like to go back often and the owners don't seem to mind as long as we ask first. My adventure is on this old farm. The owners made trails on the property and I'm about to investigate them!

Walking from the car through a field to the beginning of the trail scared out a wild turkey.

The beginning of the trail through the creekmarsh and to the sandhill.

The trail was rather overgrown but that just made the hike more adventurous. I got a little scratched from head-high wild rosebushes, walked by a pond filled with cattails, almost fell off some of the wood path (thankfully the swamp isn't really wet this time of year!) and travelled through a red pine man-made forest.

A pavillion and firepit (could use cleaning out obviously) at the base of the hill. The hill is really a crescent shape cutout with the center being an open grassy field.

Up the sandhill, follow the sand. It seems funny to call it a sandhill now that it's mostly covered with fauna. When I was a kid, this whole face was sand that the cliff swallows put their nests in.

This view is from the top of the sandhill facing southeast. What a view!

Last picture for you of my adventure today. This doe came out of the woods to the left on my way back to the van. She limps on her right front foot - whether a hunting injury or dogs, I don't know, but she's surviving. What a great day.