As I feel a bit inspired by the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge’s theme of Wanderlust, I figure that I’ll share some of my travel images over the next couple of days.
In this 2nd episode, I feel compelled to talk about one of the activities that I allow to occur from time to time: wandering! When I talk about wandering, I refer to that random turn in a direction that I have never explored before or the urge to ignore the sign that states that the pavement ends!
This is what gets me off the beaten path and has resulted in some serendipitous discoveries, such as this one…
Ignoring posted signs about the pavement is exactly what got me here, as at the end of the pavement there was a dirt track that I followed taking somewhat random turns in directions that looked interesting.
The Harvard Research Forest is a 3000 acre site near the town of Petersham in Massachusetts, and is used by the university for ecological research. As you can tell from this image, there are some pristine ponds that are a delight to behold.
So, the next time you go wandering, take that turn you have not explored before and ignore that occasional sign; you never know where it might lead…
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