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Monarch Meadows – Rising Sun, Indiana
I did not purposefully over promise the experience that I anticipated when I invited two of our daughters to join me on a hike at Monarch Meadows, to act as stand-in photographers. We had been there in June several years ago and marveled at the meadow wildflowers and the tremendous number of butterflies and pollinators.…
Mitchell Hill Lake Trail, Jefferson Memorial Forest – Fairdale, Kentucky
At over 6,600 acres, Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest municipally-owned urban forest in the United States, and is managed by Louisville Metro Parks. It was established in 1948 to honor the area’s dead WWII servicemen. Since then it has been enlarged and has been rededicated to honor all who have served in the military.…
Allegheny Mound Trail, Plum Run Prairie Preserve – Peebles, Ohio
For reasons that are not clear to me, we did a terrible job getting ourselves out to the prairies during their peak earlier this summer. With time running out on August, on a surprisingly temperate day with a nice breeze, we decided to return to Plum Run Prairie Preserve to capture a part of what…