Up Close and Personal with Mother Nature

For those who would like to get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s annual transformation, we highly recommend hitting the Clarion Little Toby Rails to Trails (the Trail Head is located 3 blocks from the Mansion).  The Trail offers a wonderful 18 mile trek for walkers, bikers and outdoor enthusiasts and features scenic views of woods, streams, paths and bits of local history.  And you never know what you’ll see….We took advantage of the beautiful weather this week and enjoyed riding our bikes over the crunchy leaves and acorns that are carpeting the Trail.  

We noticed how the path has gradually turned from lush green to a rainbow of vibrant autumn hues and is slowly entering into its winter season.  Soon the pine trees will be sparkling with diamond like frost and it will be time to trade our bikes in for our cross country skis.  But for now, we are enjoying the deer and squirrels as they forge about.  And speaking of seeing cool and unusual things …. We saw this little guy scampering about.