Stroll through a misty wood

[Mistwalker]

Well...due to atmoshperic conditions the painted pieces wouldn't dry quick enough to get a second coat on so I had to knock work off a couple hours early today. However on the drive home it dawned on me that it was a perfect day for a stroll through the woods, and, thankfully mother nature was kind enough as to keep the rained slowed to barely more than a fine mist for a couple of hours so I could take some pictures.

A smiling tree?

 

[SkogKniv]

Great pictures!

 

[Mungo]

Those are some spectacular pictures... very nice!

Mungo

 

[Mistwalker]

Thanks guys, glad you enjoyed them. I much enjoyed the short time of peace.

 

[BOD]

Lucky you. I' ve got to go to a "resort' and golf club in a few minutes to talk to a bunch of business men and bureaucrats.

I'm not getting paid either. Rats

 

[Ex Member - Sidney Bounty]

great photos waiting for a fairy or troll to jump in...

Love rocky brook shots

 

[Shewie]

Nice photos again Mistwalker thanks for sharing

 

[webmuppet]

Looks fantastic - fairly spooky too

 

[Mistwalker]

Thanks all. Many seem think the fogs and mists are eerie and spooky. Maybe it's because I grew up out there in the woods and have spent most of my life there...or maybe now it's partly from a confidence of the knowledge that I am equally as dangerous...,if not much more so, than anything I am going to run across out there, but I have delighted in wondering through misty woods since a was a small child. To me I, for a time enter into a Tolkienesque world where I feel utterly at home.

 

[BOD]

All depends on your upbringing.

To me who started jungle walks at about 8 it is a place of quiet and serene beauty. Not a sleepless moment due to fear of snakes, tigers or elephants.

Yet when I did a two day walk across Exmoor in the sw of England, in early April, I walked at night

"Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread."


It was okay in the day time though

 

[Mistwalker]

Spot on..., in that jungle I would have many a tense moment at least at first I'm sure. My first few nights in the Everglades were more than just a little sleepless. But here...I was sent into those woods every Autumn and Winter with a shotgun to bring home game from age six..., (my brother and I still wonder aloud if they had life insurance on us or what with some of the things they had us do lol) I know the life forms in the woods around here so well I have no fear at any time. I know areas that are better respected and not crossed at night but I don't fear anything here.

 

[Fraxinus]

Spot on..., in that jungle I would have many a tense moment at least at first I'm sure. My first few nights in the Everglades were more than just a little sleepless. But here...I was sent into those woods every Autumn and Winter with a shotgun to bring home game from age six..., (my brother and I still wonder aloud if they had life insurance on us or what with some of the things they had us do lol) I know the life forms in the woods around here so well I have no fear at any time. I know areas that are better respected and not crossed at night but I don't fear anything here.

"Knowledge removes fear", a very true statement in my view, I think RM said it once too. The quote above qualifies that statement and "areas that are better respected and not crossed at night " shows good use of the knowledge.
Your photo's are very atmospheric thanks for sharing them.

 

[Snufkin]

Great photos. That's some beautiful countryside you have there.

 

[Mistwalker]

Thank you, I'm glad you all enjoy them. I wish I would have had time to go another couple of miles to the falls, I'm sure that area was beautiful as well....maybe next time.

 

[Toddy]

Beautiful Mistwalker

Looks like the morning mist just didn't lift.
Funny how fog turns known places into something kind of ooh :theyareon , isn't it?

That fine rain we call smirr. It gets you every bit as wet, but it doesn't kind of bludgeon you into drookitness quite so relentlessly as the pouring down stuff

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Mistwalker]

Thanks Toddy, Glad you like the pics. It got thicker as the day went by, lol, from what I've noticed the rain doesn't fall on you as hard when you are actualy standing in the cloud

 

[Wayland]

I love conditions like that, very atmospheric.

Great pictures.

 

[Mistwalker]

Thank you, me too! It's my favorite time to be out there. I love the ethereal, mystical feel the wood takes on at these times