To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

As promised, photos from my expedition the other day. We just missed the peak fall foliage there; it was perfect in the yard, but the lake is a tiny bit colder and thus a tiny bit further along, apparently. Plus the dry summer didn't make for the most spectacular colors. Still, there were pretties to be photographed, and there's a setting on my camera that gives yellow leaves a nice glow. My graduated neutral density filter helps a lot as well.









The lake. Fun fact: The only natural lake in Tennessee is Reelfoot Lake, formed in 1811-1812 when the giant earthquakes from the New Madrid Fault occurred, supposedly causing the Mississippi River to flow backwards for 24 hours and thus fill in the lake. Every other lake in the state is man-made, generally by the TVA. Radnor Lake was originally built in 1913 by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as a reservoir for watering their steam engines and the livestock they shipped. It's unusually close to town for such a large park; you can actually see the skyline from the tops of the hills around the lake.













Now on to the trail, which is actually a former road. (This will become horrifying once you see more pictures of it. I recall riding in cars down that road; it's a miracle anyone survived.)





Road looking verrrry post-apocalyptic! There are also sections which have crumbled into the lake, which again makes me look back on actually using it for cars in horror.



Slightly less post-apocalyptic and more leafy. Yay.



This was around the point where I saw the deer. Sadly, not even one good picture of her.



Another shot of the lake from further down the road.



Hill with red saturation upped as high as it'll go!



Jet contrails. At one point that day, there were nine in the sky. It was very clear.



Back to the road.









Pin oak showing off.



This is not actually from the lake, but it's my favorite tree down here. Even if it does tend to shed all over my car.