Morning sun lights up this big sweetgum on Lakeshore, a favorite walk that parallels Shackelford Creek and winds around Long Lake (#3). Hidden Lake is also accessed off Lakeshore, and I sometimes detour up to take in that view, as well. This is also the point in the Lakeshore walk where I sometimes peel off and walk the west bank of Long Lake and the north bank of Bream Lake.

Critters
Country Place Critters
Over the past few weeks, two neighbors here on Oakmeadow Circle have told us about about mother foxes rearing kits under their decks, one with three and the other with four offspring. So we’ve been