Warm and nice day in Roxborough Park

By this time we no longer doubted that Fall had come... Frosty mornings but sunny days. The air was warm during the day but cold in the late afternoon (and especially in the mornings). The trees were mostly bare and the grass withered. Warm clothes took place on the hooks and were used often.... Fall time...

 

But the daytime was nice and sunny and warm so it was not easy to stay at home during the weekends, so one Sunday we ended up at Roxborough State Park, one of the parks we missed to visit.

We left the car in the parking lot and started to walk slowly along the path. We enjoyed every second of this hike - it was a pleasure to look at the views, Morrison formation cliffs and the nearly bare oak trees along the trail.

That was a fairly short walk - only about 2.5 miles long and a very easy one. We stopped here to look at the plants, stopped to see the rocks, and kept walking again...

At some point we were surprised by the sound. It was as if someone had run under a rug of dry leaves that covered the ground all along the trail. We thought it might be little mice or chipmunks running around and hiding food for the long winter.

 

One moment the rustle was so loud that we expected to see a large mouse moving through the oak thicket... But that was just a young deer  that slowly crossed our path (less than 15 feet away) and moved forward... "He could at least turn in our direction and say Hello", we thought :)

  

That was the perfect weekend getaway there - short, pleasant, easy, quiet and with so many attractions to admire. The same hike in the Summer would be exhausting because it's mostly open space. Winter should be snowy, slippery and cold. Fall (and possibly Spring) is the best time to spend some time here.

Pictures were taken on November 08, 2015.