Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to share some photos from a recent hike that the little man and I went on!

Forested Wednesday Hike

The autumn is one of my favorite times in the New England area. It's got so many things to do because in the summertime, it's a lot of spending time on the lakes, rivers and in the ocean. The autumn time though, that's the time to go out and do some hiking and exploring!

The little man, as sad as it is, is getting older and with that comes some added benefits. One of the good benefits in that realm is that he's able to do some more rigorous hikes than he was able to just a few months or a year ago! I've been challenging him to go on more challenging hikes or longer ones and he's stepped up to the challenge quite well! We have to make sure that we have adequate supplies though, as he does get a little hangry or thirsty if we don't! Lol.

The region we went hiking is one that we've never been to before and I've been enjoying that, getting out and exploring some new spots. I think one of these days I'm going to bring him back to a spot that I am intimately familiar with as I hiked it so often as a kid, since it was within walking distance, that I think will be a fun time to share with him.

In the meantime though, we've been checking out things that are pretty close to us like this spot. This spot is one that we've driven by but we haven't stopped in to check it out until one day I knew that we were going to go for a hike so I opted to give it a whirl. It didn't disappoint that's for sure! It had all kinds of cool stuff like this old steam bucket excavator from the early 1900's which was an epic find. I wasn't expecting to see anything cool like this until we checked out the map at the trail head and I was like "hmm, what do they mean steam bucket??" and we found out! The little man enjoyed this thing quite a bit, as he got to climb on it and even stole the DSLR camera and snapped a few photos here and there. He's got some decent photography skills let me tell you!

What was also cool with the hike is that we came across quite a few wild things in the ground. There were a few things that we identified last year that I don't know exactly the name of it but I think this one here is known as wood sorrel. Apparently, looking it up online, it's edible and used in many European countries in soups and salads of various kinds. I wouldn't mind giving this a whirl one day, honestly! I love finding these types of things when we are out and about in the wild, and know that they are edible. I will certainly be referring to a guide or two when the first times that I go to partake in that activity but it's on the list of things to try.

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Believe it or not but this photo right here was taken by none other than the little man! He's been a little jealous of me having the DSLR around my neck when he can't have one for himself but I do let him take it for a few photos before I take it back.

He's almost at the point where I would let him take the camera around his neck while we are hiking but he's still a little careless and knocking the camera around all kinds of ways when we're out so I don't give him the opportunity to break the thing lol. He still takes some great photos though! I tell him a little bit about the type of frame that I'm looking to capture and he goes about trying to get into a good pose and all that for a nice photo and ends up taking a few decent ones which is cool!

What was kind of funny about the hike is one of the main purposes of us going on the hike is so that we could try and get some decent foliage pictures! We ended up not getting much foliage at all lol we were a little too early when we took these but I think the time I'm typing this, should likely be a decent opportunity to get some photos. What's been funny is the first year we took foliage pictures we were spot on for the timing then the last two years we were either too early or too late by the time we got to take them. How annoying! Lol but we still got a few that were worth keeping so that was good.

I think in the end we ended up doing around 14,000 steps on this hike which is really good! The more I take him out the stronger his little legs get and I'm able to take him out for further hikes. I think when he eventually gets to the point where he wants to do a serious hike I will definitely have to pack a backpack and some gear to bring with us, so that we are prepared for anything that could arise when we are out there. I'm looking forward to that day but I'm also not looking forward to it, because that means he's getting too old! LOL

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