Showing posts with label forest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forest. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2021

Gilbert: A Forest Walk

 

Yesterday we wanted to go for a walk, but because it's very crowded at our usual route we decided to go to Drenthe for a walk, away from all the city crowds.

It was close to the radio telescope of Westerbork. There was a sign telling you to shut of your phone if you were walking in the direction of the radio telescope, so we decided to go in the other direction. We needed our phone to take pictures after all.

No people in sight!
Let's go this way.

It was a lovely sunny day.


I did some exploring and climbed some trees.

I enjoyed the sun.

What a fun walk.

Hmm.. Let's go this way now.




This sign means you should keep your dog on a leash. Luckily I'm a piggy.

There was a tree with a big stone in front of it with text on it.

"Through the window of my eyes."

It's a monument to the song Window of My Eyes by Harry Muskee from the Blues band Cuby + Blizzards. It's on one of Harry Muskee's favorite spots and where he got the inspiration for the song apparently.

I can understand why he liked it here.

This is a marker stone so you know where you are, I think.

I spotted this next to the marker stone.
It's a wooden chip with something written on it in a language I don't know.

More tree climbing.




Checking if my owner is paying attention and still taking pictures.

After our walk we got French fries and chicken nuggets and then we went home again. On our way home there was a lot of fog, so we were lucky to have such a nice sunny afternoon.

Monday, August 14, 2017

A Forest and a Monster?


Yesterday it promised to be a lovely day, so we went for a walk.


We wanted to go to a forest.
This might look like a forest, but it had a meadow on one side and a road on the other.


This looks more like it.
A sign that said we were entering a special nature zone with rules we had to follow as not to disturb the wildlife. I wonder what kind of wildlife.


As we entered the forest my owner told me a story about a forest monster.
Was the Forest Monster the wildlife we shouldn't disturb?


It was beautiful in the forest and i spotted mushrooms that looked like potatoes!


I did some climbing.


This small branch was more comfortable than it might look.






Another mushroom.


Then I heard a strange sound.
Like someone was munching on something!


I decided to investigate.
It could be the Forest Monster!


Nope, not here.


Hmm... If it is the monster, it's good at hiding.


Not in this tree.


Not here either.


More mushrooms.
But someone had clearly been munching on these!


And then I spotted the culprit!


It wasn't a monster:
It was Tiny, the luck elephant. He was curious about the mushrooms and decided to taste them. He said that shiitake mushrooms are tastier.

That mystery solved we continued our walk.


I spotted acorns!


Someone had munched on this acorn. It wasn't Tiny though.


We took a break in this lovely field of heather.


The weather was indeed lovely. Nice and sunny.
We had a lot of grey days lately, so we enjoyed the sun.


A really big mushroom.
I think it's a tinder fungus.


A really tiny mushroom.




After a wonderful walk we made our way back to the bus station to go home again.


But before we took a bus back home, we had something to eat.
Fries! Yum!