March 18th, 2025

Here it is folks, the promised Photo Safari Report from last week. Since this hike was on Joy's birthday we will call this one the Joy's Birthday Hike. Sometimes the hikes name themselves.

As you can see, we started out fairly early, which is such a pretty time of day even if it means also a chillier time of day with heavy dew on the ground.  Which in turn means we wear toasty layers and our feet get wet and therefore also very dirty.  (the dirt sticks to the wet y'see) Oh well. But since we both hike in sneakers and sneakers are washable it's no biggie.

Like lots of our hikes, there were areas with not much going on and other spots where we stood in one spot taking one photo after another over and over for quite some time.  We do move around in that one spot because the shots are in every direction all at the same time. We resemble photo snapping whirling dervishes more than anything in those moments.  And then the moment is gone, we move on and that's just how it works.  We are good with it.

I'll begin at the beginning with some bird photos. The first photo of the day was of a bird and the last one was too.  Very "full circle".  I love when that happens:

,I was surprised and pleased with the number of wildflower photos I got , some perhaps past their classically considered prime true enough, but always beautiful no matter what:

The forest was, as it always is, breathtakingly beautiful just on it's own:

I even have a couple of Randos for the post today!

I reckon that's about the size of it.  It was a good hike. I would go so far as to say that it was a great hike!   Hope you had a good time reading the Joy's Birthday Hike Photo Safari Report. 

See you soon!  

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