Quiet First Weekend in March

Last Thursday I had a minor medical procedure and was forced to sit quietly for three days. By Saturday afternoon I had had enough and needed to get out of the house. Karen decided that she would let me take a slow meander on the Pisgah Marsh boardwalk. This place is one of our favorite places to spend a little quiet time. Now in late winter this area is coming alive with all sorts of wildlife, geese, ducks, sand hill cranes, turkeys and a wide variety of birds and small mammals. It was a slow, but not quiet walk. There was a lot of squawking, clucking, quacking and chirpping.

The sun was nice and warm even though it was still a bit cool temperature wise

Geese were cruising back and forth down the length of the water ways

The wetland area varies from a hundred yards to a quarter mile wide and is perhaps two to three miles long. The board walk starts in about the middle of the length on the east side and is about 1/3 mile long which terminates in a nice shelter overlooking a beaver pond.

Here's my lovely wife leading the way

A precious jewel in a golden setting.

Come on old man catch up!

The sky was brilliant blue and was a nice contract to the sun lit tree branches

Along the boardwalk there are several small ponds interconnected by a central flowing stream. The sunlight reflecting off the water provided a nice warm glow to the otherwise dull sepia background.

If you line up just right you can get some interesting effects like this picture above.

After the walk and on our way home we cut across the marsh on a county road a 1/2 mile north of where the board walk ends. We spotted these tom turkeys strutting across a grass field.

On further here is another shot of geese preparing to land in a corn filed.

On Sunday afternoon we got invited to Blake and Apryl's. Here is one of their deer Sandstorm. This is his first rack and seems to be very fond of it since he hasn't shead it yet.

These are three of last years fawns, almost full grown.

The weather was really nice, the boys threw a football for a while

Most of the time we just sat in lawn chairs around a camp fire.

Nothing like a late winter/early spring campfire to burn a little left over brush and junk wood.

Fresh apple branches sharpened for a specific purpose.

Hot dogs!

Another hot dog

We even had Moses's daughter attend a burning bush! What a weekend.