Here in Louisville we have Cherokee, Chickasaw, Iroquois, Seneca, Shawnee, and Algonquin. Parks that is, those people have long since been extirpated from these parts. The largest of these is Iroquois, and it's there that I've been doing a bit of wandering lately.
Came across a sign in the park that described it as "Louisville's Yellowstone." Having taken thousands of photos in both Yellowstone and Iroquois, I can attest to it's resemblance. Or rather the complete lack of one. Still, it's a fun place to wander.
If you're hard of hearing and don't look up you can almost pretend you're in the backcountry.
A while back they did some work to Burnt Knob, the highest point in the park (and city), to return it to a more natural state. Among other things that involved making a bunch of frog ponds so the hill wouldn't wash away quite so much.
The frogs were quite vocal in their support of this, and the dragonflies didn't seem to mind either.
These photos are two separate trips to the park this week, originally I took my wide angle lens but had to come back with a longer one to shoot the critters.
Saw a buck and a doe when I was meandering on Monday but with the wide angle there was no way to get a good shot. #Wednesdaywalk seemed like a good enough excuse to go hunting so I my 70-300mm out and headed back this morning.
Saw a couple adults but neither were very cooperative, the photo above is the closest I got getting a decent shot of one. Luckily one of them had a couple fawns with it and I was able to snap a few of one before it realized I was there.
I discovered Monday that if the sky looks like that you almost have enough time to make it home before the rain hits. That's atop Burnt Knob looking to the west. There's also has a scenic overlook up there that lets you view downtown.
It's great for gazing upon that good ol' Ohio River Valley smog. That's Churchill Downs in the midground and you can kinda make out the buildings downtown behind it. Reminds me of being out west when everything is on fire, except nothing is on fire and this is a 'good' day according to the air quality monitor...
On that note it's probably time to bug out!