{"id":15283,"date":"2024-11-18T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15283"},"modified":"2024-11-18T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:52:52","slug":"my-corner-of-the-world-hiking-oxley-nature-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15283","title":{"rendered":"My Corner of the World – Hiking Oxley Nature Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One day late in October it was very windy. Windy days I like to go to Oxley Nature Center, especially their Sierra Club Trail. You can hear the wind howling in the treetops but it is calm down on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I hardly ever see anybody. This trip I encountered only one person. A guy headed towards me looking kind of angry and upset. I had my spidey senses going but he passed me without looking up. I could hear him walking past in the leaves, crunch, crunch, crunch. Any change in the pattern and I would have looked around. But nothing happened. I’m not going to begrudge anybody needing a little solace in the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I took a small garbage bag and my grabbers with me. The places I go hike there is hardly ever any trash. This day I found just a few cans and wrappers and that was it. Put the trash in the trashcan at the trailhead at the end of my hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a feast of Oklahoma style fall color. We don’t have a whole lot of color in the fall besides some yellows and browns. I’m okay with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a little reddish color for you. My Merlin ID app was going crazy with all the birds in the area. I was going crazy with inability to see such birds, except as small specs when they took off. I saw lots of squirrels and a glimpse of a deer. Kind of a zero day for photographing animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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