This week, I returned from an amazing trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. I would love to share with you some of the photographs I took there, and some I took off the island.
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Right now I am vacationing in Bar Harbor, Maine, once again. Such a gorgeous place! I will be returning Tuesday evening with many memories to share with you, so get ready! Who knows what will be waiting in your inbox next week. Read last year's post on Bar Harbor. This week, my family and I took an eventful walk through Benson’s Park in Hudson, NH. This nature-full park used to be a zoo from 1926-1987, but was transformed into a public park and nature area in 2009. The empty animal cages are still scattered beside the trails and walkways throughout the park. As we walked the trails, I spotted these intricate morel mushrooms. Such fabulous works of God! Although they are edible, I wouldn’t want to risk it if I perhaps identified them incorrectly. Plus, dogs walk these trails very regularly. Continuing down the path, a beautiful song reached our ears. It was coming from a crab apple tree on the side of the path. We searched the many blooming branches, and finally spotted the singer. It was a bright Baltimore Oriole! What a vibrant orange. Unfortunately, I was unable to photograph this beautiful bird. Here is a photo from Wikipedia.org of the Oriole. Resting between the limbs of the crab apple tree was this encouraging message painted on a stone. What a happy thing to come across! As the path ran along the side of a pond, I spotted a Canada Goose which seemed very comfortable with us so close to it. I slowly approached it, and to my surprise, it didn’t move at all. It just looked at me, and even leisurely took a drink of the water. I was only inches away from the bird. I could have stroked its feathers. After looking at me one last time, it slowly stepped into the water and paddled off. I don’t know why this bird was so comfortable around humans, but it was truly amazing. Also, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Benson's Park supports the American Chestnut Foundation. There were at least two new blight-resistant saplings planted on the side of the trails! See my post on the American chestnut. Benson's park is an amazing place to go to see God's wonderful creation. I will definitely be visiting again soon, and I hope you will too. Here are some photos I took this past week on a nature walk my family and I took at Mine Falls Park in Nashua, NH. This woodsy series of trials is a very beautiful place to stop and look at God's creation. More reading: Mine Falls park Last weekend, my family and I took a small vacation up north in North Conway, a beautiful place. Last year, we took many trips to this town under the mountains, and we were eager to return. On the way to the hotel, we stopped at a stunningly beautiful place. Castles made of ice were looming up everywhere, with neon lights inside them. It was a fabulous sight. Although these castles were not natural occurrences, the ice was incredible to look at. The next morning, we decided to go snowshoeing up a small mountain called Mt. Willard. The way up was freezing (I didn’t have warm gloves) and difficult, but the view was worth the trouble. On the sides of the trail there were many animal tracks to be identified. I saw many rabbit tracks and a few coyote tracks, and we even stumbled upon the home of a rabbit with tracks leading up to it. You never know what you will find in a deep wood where few humans venture. It is a magical thing to explore such a quiet, wild place.
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