My walk this week takes me from valley floor to forest interior and looking through the trees. The forest is a lot smaller now than it used to be, but it is still a place I love and no matter how often I visit, I always find something new about.
On this occasion I ventured into the interior and realised that others had been before me when I discovered a narrow warn path through the trees as a parallel alternative to negotiating the muddy, flooded track that until now had been my usual route.
Check out the image sequence as well as my view through the trees in the video below.
![Ascending from the town](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-1.jpg?ssl=1)
![Beginning of trees](https://i1.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-2.jpg?ssl=1)
![Valley view](https://i2.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-3.jpg?ssl=1)
![Life still growing](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-4.jpg?ssl=1)
![Looking through the trees](https://i1.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-5.jpg?ssl=1)
![stump creature](https://i2.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-6.jpg?ssl=1)
![Tree panorama](https://i2.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-7.jpg?ssl=1)
![forest path](https://i2.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-8.jpg?ssl=1)
![Looking through the trees 2](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-9.jpg?ssl=1)
![luxury insect hotel](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-10.jpg?ssl=1)
![straight through](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-11.jpg?ssl=1)
![mossy hollow](https://i1.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-12.jpg?ssl=1)
![dripping with moss](https://i2.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-13.jpg?ssl=1)
![heading home](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fforest-14.jpg?ssl=1)
I might be navigating a bit of mud next week when I drive back to Illinois and then walk in the park where I used to walk regularly as the forecast shows the possibility of rain. Rain and mud seem so foreign now that we live in the desert so I’m looking forward to the chance of some. 🙂
janet
Yeh Enjoy a jump in a muddy puddle. Mud, mud, glorious mud. Nothing quite like it …..