A Saturday walk by the Congaree River

 Saturday Scott and I went for a lovely walk along the river and it was so lovely. I took my Lumix camera and captured as much fungi and blue tailed five lined skinks as I could spy along the way. So many people just walk or run along that walkway not seeing all the beauty around them. Beauty comes in small packages a lot of the time and it only takes a moment to see them if you just slow down and observe. 

Fungi first...

I just so love all the different types of fungi you can see along this city Riverwalk. 

 

Now for some flowers and leaves: 

Autumn is coming

Grapevines, Kudzu and Privet.... all obnoxious! At least with grapes you can make jam or wine.

The only tropical fruit in South Carolina... Paw Paw's - Fruit

Paw Paw tree/leaves

Paw Paw before Scott cut it open. These have ZERO shelf life/

"Monkey Grass" - Liriope

Another glimpse of Autumn

Why you NEVER want to plant Kudzu - it grows 1 FOOT a day!!!!

Kudzu Leaf

Bark from a Sycamore tree... Doesn't it look happy?

All the lovely "Critters". We saw Canadian Geese, 5 lined Sinks and a snail as well as so many illusive dragon flies and other shy bugs. 

SO much beauty in such a small package.

And before we knew it was time to get back to the car to head home. T little hut is a Community board and the larger building is the restrooms. There is also a lovely picnic area right there near the restrooms and it is a covered area. 

Our Walk Yesterday

Yesterday we got a late start on our walk so weren't able to go as far as we have been as the heat and humidity made it nearly impossible to breathe but we still went. Walked from the Cayce Pavilion to the trail end by the chicken processing plant in West Columbia ( PEE EWWWWWW....). We decided to skip taking the camera along as it is a bit of a hassle to deal with when running and of course we saw several amazing things that we wished that we had the camera with us to capture on disk (can't say film anymore). At the end where we turned around there was a beautiful white Egret less than 15 yards from us and it just stood on the rocks and let us watch it. Then we saw what we believed to be a Kingfisher. Such wonderful wildlife along the river.

Scott has a job interview today at 1 and we have our fingers and toes crossed. We try hard not to get too excited about anything job related anymore so that we won't be so disappointed when it doesn't pan out. We are planning to get our walk/run in early this morning - I'd go right now if Scott was up and moving as it's only 73* right now; later it's to get up into the 90's. Today I will clean house and get all the laundry caught up so that I won't have to do anymore until Monday. I'm planning to go up and help my parents some this weekend so the guys will be living the Bachelor Life. I wonder what the house will look like when I get back.