The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day Hike at Lake Pleasant


First stop: the Agua Fria river for a nearby geocache.


Next stop: Lake Pleasant
Little green things in the water :o)


See the turtle?


Cattails galore :o) I like cattails.


Eek! Spider! (Just kidding).


Same spider after I touched it. Some people's children.


The stream and the cattails.


Holey.


Curly leaf.


Same curly leaf with a skeeter.


Baby versions of the curly leaf. I think these are giant weeds growing along side my favored cattails.


More cattails.


Lucky shot, butterfly.


This is for John.


I leaned my arm on a tree branch to steady my camera to get these spider shots. As I did that, another spider crawled on my arm. I took my pictures and the spider walked off my arm. While the spider was on my arm I had a mental picture of watching myself jump up and down, shrieking like a manic because a spider was touching me, but everything turned out ok. I don't even think my hiking buddy knew I was on the verge of an "insect is touching me meltdown".


Lake Pleasant hiking scenery, this is why I come here.


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