The San Antonio River, Mission Reach, An Early Autumn Afternoon Along the River, Part 1

Today's photos:

It is hard for me to believe it has been more than two months since I have walked the San Antonio River trail. With today as absolutely beautiful as it was, it seemed like the perfect time to revisit the mission reach of the river and see how the restoration project was progressing. So, today's walk took me from the Mission Rd Trailhead to Concepcíon Park and back.

I ended up spending over three hours along the river. It will take me a good part of the weekend just to do a basic edit of all the photos I took. I went through the set fairly quickly this evening and selected a random 22 photos that I feel give some indication of my experience. I am running out of superlatives to describe it all. Needless to say there will be several more posts from today's photos.

It  was nice to see that the landscaping that had just been planted and was still being planted in June as part of the restoration process has taken hold and begun to mature. There were numerous butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies. The wind was blowing at about 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph, so photographing the numerous flowers was a bit more of a challenge.

While the egrets, cormorants and mallards are year round residents, the range of bird species was different than the birds that are present in June. There will be more detail about that in the upcoming posts from this walk.

Beyond those few observations, the photos speak for themselves.