Ground level autumn color, Minudie, Nova Scotia
Taken late in October after a strong storm had turned trees loaded with "at peak" fall color into definitely "past peak" bare skeletons. This was taken at the beginning of a nine mile hike along the dyke at the "Elysian Fields" in Minudie. The dyke surrounds roughly 3,500 acres of "community pasture" land, and is a great place to see burrowing owls, migratory waterfowl, and all sorts of flowering plants native to an open marshy environment. Access is off the Barronsfield Road in Minudie. Anyone planning to hike along the Dyke from spring through late October should be prepared to encounter hungry marsh mosquitoes in "biblical plague" numbers. In the warmer months I usually avoid this place except on those days where a strong southwest wind makes it impossible for them to land and bite. The ideal time to walk the Dyke is soon after the hay has been cut. Short stubble is much easier to walk through than waist high tangled hay. I've done it both ways and if no cutting has been done I simply walk alongside the dyke where the shorter marsh grass provides easier passage. This photo was taken just as I emerged from a wooded area abutting the dyke. Here these two leaves are resting on a bed of moss. I resisted the temptation to turn the smaller leaf over to reveal what would probably have been its more colorful side.
Nikon D40, Nikon 18-55 "kit" lens set at 55mm, with a Sigma 1.6x achromatic close up lens on the 18-55.
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Ground level autumn color, Minudie, Nova Scotia
Taken late in October after a strong storm had turned trees loaded with "at peak" fall color into definitely "past peak" bare skeletons. This was taken at the beginning of a nine mile hike along the dyke at the "Elysian Fields" in Minudie. The dyke surrounds roughly 3,500 acres of "community pasture" land, and is a great place to see burrowing owls, migratory waterfowl, and all sorts of flowering plants native to an open marshy environment. Access is off the Barronsfield Road in Minudie. Anyone planning to hike along the Dyke from spring through late October should be prepared to encounter hungry marsh mosquitoes in "biblical plague" numbers. In the warmer months I usually avoid this place except on those days where a strong southwest wind makes it impossible for them to land and bite. The ideal time to walk the Dyke is soon after the hay has been cut. Short stubble is much easier to walk through than waist high tangled hay. I've done it both ways and if no cutting has been done I simply walk alongside the dyke where the shorter marsh grass provides easier passage. This photo was taken just as I emerged from a wooded area abutting the dyke. Here these two leaves are resting on a bed of moss. I resisted the temptation to turn the smaller leaf over to reveal what would probably have been its more colorful side.
Nikon D40, Nikon 18-55 "kit" lens set at 55mm, with a Sigma 1.6x achromatic close up lens on the 18-55.
DSC-8688