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Into the Woods Gallery
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For easier
downloading and a bit more organization, I've divided my pictures
into four categories, each its own gallery:
Gallery
1 - General
Ballardvale Road, which connects to my "homestreet."
Entrance to the woods is near the bend
in the road where it disappears in this pic.
I went poking into a little run-off pond by the entrance to
a cul-de-sac near the entrance to the woods and
found this rather symbolic representation of the area.
This old home is, I believe, the home formerly occupied
by the woman who owned the entire woodland
and recently willed it to the Town of Andover.
Official entrance on Ballardvale Road.
When I saw this path, I just couldn't resist.
The forest has a lot of "passes" like this where the
path
goes through a stone wall or stone boulder markers.
These red berries were growing all over.
I don't remember them from growing up but gosh, very pretty!
There's a serious amount of undergrowth/bramble/dead
branches in this sort of forest.
I also don't remember seeing vines like this before moving to
Georgia,
but there were vines all over the place in that forest.
One of the several streams that run through the forest.
In the background you can just see the
backs of some of the big suburban houses.
Typical groundcover -- lotsa oak leaves, sticks and bits of snow.
One of the many "dead tree" pics I took. Oaks.
These are my beloved white pines. Kinda scruffy ones, I admit.
Deer tracks in the snow.
In the forest near the end of the trail, it was all misty,
from the warm air against the snow. Very spooky!
Sun is going down on my visit the second day. It was only like
3:30.
Yeah, couldn't resist a self-portrait. Kinda Blair Witch-y,
I guess.
Another self-portrait.
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