Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I am back with another great outdoor walk with the little man!
I'm lucky in that I have a guaranteed partner for some of the adventures that I'm going to be undertaking, the little man is always by my side!
One of the days recently we had to go out and do some errands and one of those errands involved a doctors appointment. Being a workday for me, I was looking for a place that I thought would be nice for me to sit and hang out to work while the little man is able to do something he doesn't get to do while I'm working at home: play outside!
The place that we live in is good in that it's not expensive and it provides us with well priced shelter, utilities and all that but it's severely lacking in the outdoor space front for kids. Whenever I get the opportunity to work effectively from where I'm at, and take the little man with me so he gets to enjoy the outdoors, I'm all in for it! This place was a tree sanctuary basically, or an arboretum I guess they are called. It had all kinds of awesome stuff! Not including this pretty damn cool Lego boat, we brought that lol.
What I loved about the place is that it had all kinds of wild trees from around the world! I didn't notice that it included the country of origin in the tag here until I was putting these pictures up for a post but that is great to see. I love seeing maple trees, they are beautiful indeed and this one doesn't disappoint. What I liked a lot about it compared to other maples though was that the bark was super cool! It was literally paper bark, I'm sure they used this to write on at one point in history lol
There were also numerous trees that I had no idea about such as this Japanese Larch. It was a pretty cool looking tree for sure!
I like the wispy nature of the leaves on it, kind of reminds me of ferns that grow on the ground except that it was attached to a pretty big tree! I'm glad to see that the trees they planted here seem to be able to withstand the semi-harsh winters that we get, enough so that they grow successfully and appear to not be falling apart. That's a good sign!
The place had a lot of inspiration of Asian culture and I found that interesting and cool. These bridges, I guess could be anywhere in the world and look like this, but to me this is more of an iconic Asian style bridge that one would find in a place like Japan or something. I could be totally off base but that's what it looks like to me. In any case though, I loved it and the walkway was cool, brings you to more trees!
The elm tree, man now this one is one hell of an amazing tree! The elm tree is what is used for lots of things but for us in our household, the critical thing it's used for is called Slippery Elm. It's a naturopathic remedy for all kinds of things but for us it's mainly stomach related. If you've got some issues with your stomach and need a more natural remedy, Slippery Elm is your choice! The stuff is great so we are big fans of this tree for sure! I don't know if the American Elm is the specific tree that is used to create Slippery Elm but it could be!
This tree here I was the most excited to see, and totally unexpected! A redwood tree is one that I've never seen before!
This one reminded me a lot of the Japanese Larch in that the leaves on it are wispy as well, and very light to the touch. What I found incredible about this particular tree here though was that the tree itself was super soft! This was definitely a "softwood' type of tree. I'm more familiar with the hardwood trees like oak and others but I've never seen a softwood tree I don't think, at least not to my knowledge.
The tree was very interesting in that when I touched it, the bark and tree limbs were incredibly soft, so much so that if I wanted to I could really bruise the tree by squeezing fairly hard! I found that fascinating, as it felt like the tree should be stronger or more resistant than that. I'm hoping that a bad ice storm doesn't take the tree down, with soft bark like that it tells me that the tree likely doesn't do very well in intense conditions but it's lasted this long so hopefully it will continue for another few decades!
The place had all kinds of really nice walking paths and places for the kids to run around and be kids. I'm a little sad that the park is quite a ways away for us, so unless we are in the specific area we won't be going back to this park anytime soon lol but it was perfect to enjoy!
These trees are ones that I've seen a few times on our travels but always appreciate seeing them up close, and especially in an area that's close to home.
The cypress trees are the iconic southern United States trees, in that they are tall, have crazy root systems and are found near water I think. The leaves are pretty easy to spot and I think these are the trees that produce the dangling stuff that makes a haunted house look that much more haunted lol. This tree might have been the biggest one in the park! It was pretty damn big, so hopefully it will keep growing and last another 40 or 50 years!
All the while we were here, I was spending an hour working in the beautiful 70 degree weather in November. It's definitely unheard of for this type of weather to occur here but according to records, they had a similar warm bout in the 1930's so it's not that crazy to experience it. It was nice getting to wear T shirts in November and sit outside, that's for sure!
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