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O. P. Schnabel Park Trailhead.
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O. P. Schnabel Park Trailhead.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Leon Creek Greenway, O.P. Schnabel Park Trailhead, north
Today's photos:
The summer heat high, the ridge of atmospheric high pressure that builds over the Southern Plains including South Texas every summer bringing triple digit heat, is firmly in place this week. "In Search Of Shade" will be the theme for all my walks this week and more than likely the rest of the summer. By the time I returned to the car today it was 99°(F) and the high temperature later in the afternoon was 103°.
It is generally 12 degrees cooler in the shade of a tree canopy, so today I stayed primarily on the creek bed trail where the tree canopy is relatively dense and continuous. One of the challenges this presented was that most of what I photographed was also in the shade, sometimes in very deep shade. This adds a degree of difficulty in the photography making it more difficult to get an accurate light meter reading and decreasing an already limited depth of field with the lens settings. Focusing becomes much more difficult.
Overall, the photographs in this series do convey the experience of the walk. This is by far one of the most vibrant sections of Leon Creek with a very diverse range of both flora and fauna.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Today's photos:
The O. P.Schnabel Park Trailhead is near the west boundary of the park, so to get to the Leon Creek Greenway (pdf map link) trail one must first walk east and south through the park. This is a good distance to walk in and of itself. Once I got to the greenway trail, I walked north on the paved trail to Prue Rd and returned on a dirt trail most of the distance back to the park trail. This section of the trail goes through riparian woodland that is very different from the trail north of Prue Rd.
It was another intense walk filled with any number of encounters that embody this blog's theme of inspiring wonder, awe and delight. Once again, I will let the photos speak for themselves. There were a couple more encounters I will present in upcoming Tuesday / Thursday posts. All the encounters: the dove walking across the trail, the flycatcher peeking out from the mesquite tree, the white-tailed deer and more, were literally unexpected, because I can never truly anticipate what will appear along a trail on any given day.
