Watershed #22 - Peninsula Park - Autumn Hike

This, the last week of October, was a good time to get out to see the remaining colors on parts of the Niagara Escarpment that stretches across Peninsula Park in Door County.  The rock formation is interesting itself, (if you want to know more about it click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/niagara_escarpment)  however the hike this week was to check out the remaining colors in the most popular camping park in Wisconsin.  The trail that was hiked is called Eagle Trail and runs along the base of the sheer cliffs at the edge of the bay of Green Bay - - massive and irregular rugged rock formations rising 240 feet that make for beautiful scenery. 

Many of the leaves have fallen, but lots still remained.  Plus, here and there, it was easy to find flowers still in bloom.  Once again way too many photos taken.  Here then are only a few of them so that you get the “feel” of the season in a place so near and so special.

Enjoy you hike today – the colors & the rock formations.

 rock cliffs rising up to 240 feet

above the waters of Green Bay

 flowers here and there still in bloom

 notice the people along the trail

 beautiful sky this day

a great accent to the leaves

 springs flowing out of the cliffs

many caves along the trail

 so quiet - so peaceful

 interesting color on this tree trunk

 colors on an island in the bay off of the park

 the village of Ephraim

as seen from the park

one last view

looking out over the bay of Green Bay

All photos posted on this Blog are taken on the property of Garden at Waters East, except for those posted in this series titled – Watershed.  You can find many postings under this title in the archives.  The watershed for the gardens is a vast territory that nourishes the land and the people for hundreds of miles around the gardens.  The overview below shows the extent of the watershed for Gardens at Waters East.

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Savage Garden - part Three

As the fall season moves further along, the “bugs” have come to the Gardens at Waters East for the final fling of the season.  Hundreds and hundreds have been showing up here, there and everywhere.  They must love what they find – because they are spending lots of time in lots of places.

Monarch Butterfly

This is the third and last in a series of three postings documenting many (but not all) of the “bugs” and more that have been sighted here recently.  Up close, some of them look rather frightening.  On that I think we can agree!

Enjoy the company as you wander the gardens today.

 Humm - a Black Cat

 Ghost Spider

 Seagulls catching Dragonflies

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

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Seasonal Contrast in the Garden #14

Postings in this ongoing series will show the same garden “area” and “objects” at two or more different times / seasons of the year.  The contrast will offer the viewer an appreciation of the beauty found in the same spot but in different months.  Some of the photos have never been seen before, others were collected from earlier postings in order to provide the needed contrast.  Each season has its own “feeling”, has its own  beauty.  Here is the "old clay pot" along the driftwood fence.

Enjoy

Reference Note:  If you check out the archives for this Blog, you will find a number of “contrast” postings in this series.  All help in understanding the gardens throughout the year.

NOTE:  All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East.

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Savage Garden - part TWO

Savage Garden – Part TWO

As the fall season moves further along, the “bugs” have come to the Gardens at Waters East for the final fling of the season.  Hundreds and hundreds have been showing up here, there and everywhere.  They must love what they find – because they are spending lots of time in lots of places.

This is a series of three postings documenting many (but not all) of the “bugs” and more that have been sighted here recently.  Up close, some of them look rather frightening.  On that I think we can agree!

Enjoy the company as you wander the gardens today.

 Interesting:

Bee watching the worm or the other way around!

 Green Eyes of Envy?

Inside the Hibiscus Flower

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

please do that through this Blog site or with an email to:

www.gardensatwaterseast@yahoo.com