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The Gorge Trail, Caesar Creek State Park – Waynesville, Ohio
The Gorge Trail was Plan C. We started our morning thinking that we would hike Culberson Woods State Nature Preserve in Clarksville, Ohio. I was interested to see what spring ephemeral flowers lived in the “Wet Beech Forest”. We had hiked there in the summer of 2022 and knew that it was a quality old-growth…
In Search of Snow Trillium, Miller Nature Sanctuary – Bainbridge, Ohio
Last summer I had added this hike to every day in my March 2026 phone calendar. We had hiked at Miller Nature Sanctuary in July and trail signage indicated the presence of the rare Snow Trillium, one of the few Trilliums that the photographer and I had not seen previously, and I wanted to make…
The Dwarf Cypress of the Everglades
We arrived at the Homestead Entry Gate to Everglades National Park at 6:30 pm on a pitch black, late January evening. As we drove the 38 miles to our lodge accommodations, we noted some small trees just alongside the road that lit up with an eerie, gray glow from the light of the LED headlights…