Scenes From Our Hike

Today we went shopping and out to eat in Charlotte, North Carolina.  It has been a long day so I’m going to feature a couple of photos from our hike yesterday…….

We had just been talking about the lack of any bird or squirrel’s nests in the area and decided it was because the eagles nest was in these woods.  Not too long after that, we noticed a rather ragged looking squirrels nest….which turned out to be not so far from the eagles nest.  Once we saw the proximity of the squirrels nest to the eagles….we figured out why it was so ragged looking….possibly ravaged by the eagle searching for lunch for the eaglets. 

 A beautiful red bud tree near the eagles nest.

A section of the Catawba River.  You can just see the Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies coming up through the water around the rocks. 

 These lilies will be in full bloom in late May, early June.

One of the several rock islands on the Catawba River.

This image was my first experiment with my new camera on slowing down the shutter speed while photographing water.  Not too bad for my first time out.  This image is quite large….click the photo to view the full size.

We also stopped by the old cemetery once again….

this place continues to fascinate me.

Tomorrow we are going to Lancaster to look around. 

See you then!  🙂