2 On the Road

Cascade Falls, Jackson, MI

So Cascade Falls cost $31,000 to build and the city is planning a $29 million renovation. Wow!

Starting up the steps

Notice the planter boxes in the middle.

Lights in one of the fountains

Looking down from the top.

The wind was blowing earlier in the day and this planter box got soaked with chlorinated water.

Music was playing and lights on three towers were being coordinated behind where I took this shot. You can see the cables box on the steps with cables run under a tunnel made of wood. Saw at least one person trip over it after it got a little darker outside.

Occasionally the wind would come up a little so the flag would move. It came up just in time for this patriotic shot.

This is where they changed the lights to make it look like the colors were coming down the falls.

See the kids playing at the top of the falls?

I changed the camera option to "Dramatic" for a couple of photos.

For the show that started at 9:30, the music and the lights were coordinated.

Walking on the Waterloo-Pinckney Trail

The Waterloo-Pinckney Hiking Trail runs through both the Waterloo and Pinckney Recreation Areas. Some of the trail is open to hiking, horses and bicycles. There are horse only trails and bicycle only trails in the recreation areas. All of our hiking was done in the Waterloo Recreation Area.

One day we went from the Discovery Center out to Lakeview. Another day we parked at the Park Headquarters, walked the Hickory Hills trail then to the Discovery Center and back.

Some of the trail was nice like this but other spots were almost overgrown. We did a lot of twig breaking trying to clear the trail.

We thought it was interesting how this tree broke when a dead section fell on it.

This vine wrapped itself so tightly around another vine that it almost looked like a rope.

Wild turkey by the Eddy Discovery Center

Six spotted Tiger beetle - see the spots on the tail?

This turtle was doing a hard climb away from the water.

I believe it to be a Blanding's Turtle

Time for some flower sniffing.

I believe this is a honeysuckle bush.

Sorry this is blurry but it shows the flower from the top. It's kind of like an open hand... four petals open one way with one petal opposite them.

We only ran across this one place where the flowers were crowding the trail.

Don't know what they are called.

These flowers were tiny. Less than pea sized.

The other walks we took were from the parking area off Mt. Hope Road. Almost an hour in each directions. So for the east (right) of Mt. Hope Road, we went past the third road crossing. The map doesn't seem right because we walked a long ways between the 2nd and 3rd road.