Fall That Special Time in Southern Indiana October 28, 2017 $125 for each Participant The Tour We could never understand why the Indiana state song focused on the banks of the Wabash and not the beautiful fall colors in our state. Join us for a special Backroads of Brown County…
I’ll admit to reduced expectations for this hike, as capturing color, form and light in the Southern Indiana woods in February is always a challenge, even when the sun and sky are ideal. But when nature is exposed as bare as she is in dead winter, abstract images – unavailable any other time of the year – are there for the discriminating eye.
Given the slow pace of fall color change here in Southern Indiana, I was more than ready to wander West-Central Indiana on Sunday in search of images for a new guidebook project and hopefully experience some of the familiar reds, oranges, yellows and golds Indiana autumn is world-famous for. It was, after all, a picture-perfect fall Sunday.
I got what I needed image-wise from the Jackson-Schnyder Nature Preserve near Terre Haute and from Raccoon State Recreation Area (SRA) to the east in Parke County near Rockville. But colorwise, the trip was largely a bust.
A Detour… I visited Goose Pond FWA this past week searching primarily for an American White Pelican that were reported in the area. It was a cool morning with a heavy cloud cover that was supposed to turn to partly cloudy skies about the time I would arrive at my…
Saturday, I lead a Photowalk sponsored by Scott Kelby at a foggy Pioneer Village in Spring Mill State Park. Saturday was also part of their autumn harvest days. Several folks were dressed in period clothing and demonstrated the work pioneers did during the period. The park and village are well…
I chose the Big Walnut Nature Preserve for the unofficial start of a new book project for a variety of reasons, not the least being its status as a registered National Natural Landmark (NNL), which means it contains “outstanding biological and geological resources.” It’s also a Dedicated State Nature Preserve, which means it’s protected against development in…
As one who’s lived his entire adult life in Southern Indiana, I can say with confidence that we Southerners are pretty smug about our natural heritage — and perhaps a bit condescending about it. Indeed, every conversation I’ve had the past few years regarding Northern Indiana natural areas has pretty much followed the same…
Gary and I heard McCormick’s Creek long before we reached the Statehouse Quarry, which sits creekside a quarter mile or so upstream from the White River West Fork. And I can’t say I was thrilled when I found the creek a muddy, coffee-with-cream color. The water rushed, unlike I’d ever seen it,…
Gary is leading a photo walk at the Pioneer Village in Spring Mill State Park on October 1, 9:00 am to 11:00 am. Each year Scott Kelby sponsors WorldWide PhotoWalk. I am happy to lead one in Pioneer Village. We will have lots of opportunities to make some great photos.…
Rock or Rocks? Ask a Hoosier about rocks, and the first response will be limestone. The second will be limestone. So will the third. Southern Indiana, particularly the area in and around Bloomington and Bedford, produces the best limestone in the world. But while we still like our limestone, we have a growing…
