Awareness of the outside world. WCNC: Mules are being used to carry supplies into western North Carolina. Brierton, October 1, 2024. Bandwidth limitations prevented me from watching the related video. I assume the mules are on there somewhere.
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Trailhead
Dunnavant Valley Greenway
Shelby County Alabama USA
October 2024
Would like to walk this some day, but need a walking partner. The city kid in me is reflexively concerned about stranger danger. Honestly, I should be more concerned about going splat. Either way, buddy system.
Technical Details
DV Trailhead, f/10, 1/100 sec., 18.0 mm, ISO 800. Manual mode & auto-focus. Post production: resized, border, & watermark. No cropping.
Border colors. Gray for project, yellow for Nikon. [Photo Safari The First], [Quarry, Photography, Things]
Added note. While shooting, I was convinced that vertical orientation would be the way to go. Tall trees framing the the path. Even looked good on the back-of-camera previews. Nope. Horizontal for the win. However, this time I took plenty of both.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Definitely buddy. Limiting but necessary.
Jane
Truth.
Beautiful trail! I second the hiking buddy theory. I finally reached the age where I’m not very inclined to ride (in the state forest) alone. Not sure why, because I never gave it a second thought for decades. But it’s far more “crowded” out there now than it used to be. Funny, how we worry more when we know we are more likely to run into people in the woods than we ever did when we knew we wouldn’t see another soul for hours. I think that’s kind of telling about the state of the world today.
I think people are still people, but there is way less understanding of horses, or large animals in general.
Yeah, agree about tree photos should be vertical — but! Guess what? My better woods, trees photos are horizontal. Go figure. Thanks for sharing. MM
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