Fall and Fog

 Some photos of the large shed on the property behind ours. The next photo is where I walked to the shed then turned around and took a picture of the trail back and you can see a corner of our house. On the trail to the shed is several large trees. The deer use this trail, too. There were hunters out there the day before I took these photos. I am sure they would have been upset to see deer tracks on top of their pickup truck tracks as I did. You can see the deer tracks in the one photo.

We had a very foggy day a few days ago. It didn't lift until noon. I am not fond of the fog but it does make for good photos.

Tulip Tree

I found a new tree in our neighborhood. One I was not familiar with. It's the tulip tree. I guess people that live in Kentucky and this area of the U. S. know about them. I had heard of them but never seen one until I moved here. And even then I didn't know what it was until they started blooming this week. I knew we had several oak trees in our yard and assumed this other big tree in the back was another oak as the bark looked like an oak. And when it started to leave out the leaves did have almost an oak leaf look to them. But the other day while walking the dog down the road by our place I noticed strange orange and yellow petals on the ground. I looked all around that area and couldn't figure out where they came from. Later that evening taking another walk I happened to look up and saw saw these beautiful tulip shaped flowers high in a tree we had thought was an oak tree. I knew what it was as I had read about them but was it ever a surprise. Now that we knew what we were looking for we discovered several tulip trees behind our property and a lot more down the road from us. I took lots of photos of them and was sure glad to have a good zoom on my camera as most of the flowers are way over my head. Because of the color of the flowers they don't show up that much and almost look like a different kind of leaf on the tree until you learn to see them.

 We figure this big tulip tree in our yard, which is the only one actually on our property is about 40 feet tall and must be quite old considering the size of the trunk.

The base of the tulip tree is about 3 to 4 feet across and has a Virginia creeper (I think) growing up it.

this is a good view of the leaves and a flower bud.

Brown Park

In our wandering we found Brown Park near the hospital in St. Mathews, Ky. There was this real pretty tree but I have no idea what kind it was. There are lots of trails through the park including a foot bridge across this stream. Or maybe it is part of one of the rivers. I wasn't sure. There were Canadian geese and several kinds of ducks as well as some squirrels. 

 Not sure what kind of tree this weeping tree is. Maybe a weeping cherry. I wouldn't mind having one like it. The past photo is of the truck of a paperbark tree. It didn't have leaves on it yet. 

In Kentucky

 These are some photos I took last March at my son's home in Kentucky.