What follows is an entire collection of photos that I took one day, each of which I shared as "filler" content in the Picture a Day community.
The first two of these were taken from a bridge close to one end of the road, just beyond my house.
As I passed by my neighbour's yard, I was able to get a halfway decent picture of the pigs.
Shortly beyond this point, the road starts to get steep, winding up the mountain.
This side road is a recent addition. It turns off halfway up the first slope, before the road takes a sharp turn and continues getting steeper.
The above picture didn't get its own post. I'm not sure what made this web, but I'm fairly certain that this one is the work of caterpillars, rather than spiders. In a different place on that same tree, I found two different, easily identifiable spiderwebs. The Hyptiotes snare:
...and the Prolinyphia snare just above it:
Farther up the road is one of my favourite sights, an abandoned drilling rig. For the longest time, the side road leading to it was blocked with nothing more than two loose strands of barbed wire, but the owners of the land recently installed a gate. They've also had the area logged recently, so the machinery at the bottom of the drilling rig is currently obscured.
The next photo is yet another one that didn't get its own post. Every hundred metres or so, there is a culvert underneath the road to allow runoff to drain. This is the largest of them, a concrete pipe roughly a metre in diameter:
Farther up, on the steepest part of the road, before it flattens out at the top of the mountain, are some bent trees. How these trees got bent, I have no idea, but it must have happened a long time ago. Many trees also bear various scars, including embedded barbed wire and woodpecker holes.
At the top of the mountain is an abandoned farm field, which presents a rather interesting scene, particularly if you enjoy painting landscapes.
On the descent, there is a split side road that presents yet another interesting possibility for a landscape painting, assuming that the painter takes a somewhat impressionistic approach.
At the end of the road is another bridge, with a somewhat different view from it. Photographs don't really portray what it's like to stand there, but I tried my best.
Given the ill timing of some trouble with the blockchain, I didn't get the feedback I was hoping for, so I'm not sure if I should do something like this again. I'll still do this again during the winter, when I'll be able to capture some much more beautiful scenes. If I can ever find the time to paint some of these, I may very well do so. Until then, I'll probably resume my usual creative activities.
