Saturday morning we headed over to Lost Maples State Park to do some hiking...
Since neither Dawn nor Skeeter had ever been in this part of the Hill Country I took them on a scenic route known as the Devil's backbone...
I love this road, it's fun...Up, Down, Up, Down and round and round...
The views are gorgeous too!
Starting out on the West Trail...4.9 miles and most of it is rocks!! It was chilly that morning too, 55 degrees F. but as always here in Texas it warmed up quiet a bit come afternoon!
Michael is ready...he's got his walking stick!
Trey spotted a nest and his Dad helped him studying it...
Lost Maples State Park is known for it's Saw tooth Maple trees and their beautiful Autumn colors. They hadn't started to change color yet due to the weather not being cold enough yet but we did find a little color here and there...
I love these kids, they are so much fun!!
Buddies...
Trey really looks up to Michael. It drives Michael crazy but he's pretty good with Trey and patient most of the time...They did extremely well hiking together!
Dawn, Skeeter and their family!!
The Loo at the top of the trail...
It doesn't matter that the Autumn colors hadn't shown up yet, I still love this place...
Dacey was enjoying the Big, Big Leaves she was finding...
Time for a break...
Michael was finding some leaves too...
A little bit of Autumn color...
A small waterfall...
And Michael and Trey posing next to another small waterfall...
A pool created from freshwater springs...there were several springs running into this pool and the pool even had some fish in it...
Michael and Jenny on the trail...
A bigger view...
The 3 Amigos...
Such a beautiful trail...
The Ponds...clear beautiful water!!
The Sabinal river also runs through Lost Maples...
The end of the trail...not far to the vehicles now, yeah!
It took us 5 hours to hike 4.9 miles, as you can see we took our time and several rest breaks (due to both Dawn and I having foot problems, sigh). It was a beautiful day to spend with good friends and family!! No hurry, no worries!
And towards the end of our hike I did manage one photo of a beautiful Fritillary butterfly!!
I ended up with 60 photos from our hike out of about 200+ photos. It took me awhile to post these as it was hard to decide which photos to share with y'all...It was such a wonderful day! If you live in Texas or are visiting the one place I think everyone needs to check out is Lost Maples State Park...it's unforgettable!!
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