Photo Editing & Mountain Lions

Last weekend we went to Comanche Lookout Park instead of going back to McAllister.  Comanche Lookout Park is a great small park which actually has trails that lead up to the library and has a large patio and bridge.  The library sits alongside the west side of the park, has an amphitheatre and some sculptured public art.  While we were walking we noticed that spring is here and there was one tree that drew us off the park trail, beautiful colors especially with all of the still dead winter brush around it.

This weekend we returned to McAllister Park, I mentioned this sign in my last post. I must say I am disappointed I only saw the other species, no feral hogs, no coyotes, no snakes, no bobcats and especially no mountain lions.   I am wondering how this is supposed to warn anyone when this sign is at the beginning of only one trail, not posted online at all and on top of that the trail starts right behind the largest playground in the park.  This sign seems to be here for the wild miniscule chance that one of these species will show only for plausible deniability. “Well, we did warn you.”

Mountain Lions, Bobcats & Feral Hogs... Oh My!

Anyway, last walk here I was happy to have gotten several shots of some of our local deer, even with my husbands panic of them being so close. This time we successfully traversed the trails without getting lost once, even plotted out a path for the next time we go walking there.  There were a few logistical debates and a compass app involved but Whoo-Hoo!

I only took a few photos during our walk.  When I started looking at the photos I thought one in particluar could be edited to look like the path a character in a suspense/scary movie would be travelling down.  So I had  some fun playing with the image.  I was going for spooky what do you think?

Lost: Geek & Artist

Well after weeks of crazy weather we had a beautiful Saturday.  Chris and I decided to go to the park and walk, also going to one we had only been to once before.  McAllister Park.

McAllister Park Map - Trails

Unbeknownst to us they have done a few upgrades since our last visit and prompltly got ourselves lost.  McAllister park is beautiful and I knew it had severl miles of trails however I didn’t realize that with the expansion it will have 25 miles of trails.  The park is now going to be part of the Salado Creek Greenway which links three of the large parks on the North – NorthEast side of San Antonio.

Salado Creek Greenway (McAllister Park to Lady Bird Johnson Park).

After about 30 minutes of walking we decided to head back, we thought we were on the same trail we started on and … oops we weren’t.  We were in the new part of the park and didn’t realize it.  After about 15 minutes of unsuccessfully finding our way back we asked an unsuspecting lady walker with her dog how to get back.  She was startled but told us we could follow her back to the mail trail and we did, to bad it was the wrong trail for us.  After getting our bearings we took some educated guess and successfully got back to our car. Yeah team!  Our walk ended up being about and hour-forty.

It was a lovely walk.  There was a sign that told us to use caution because there were Bobcats, Wild Hogs, Snakes and a few other lovely city dwelling creatures. [I regret not taking a picture of that sign - I will next time.]  We did see some deer and my hubby made me laugh.  There were a few bucks and due to being in this area they aren’t scared of people, wary but not scared, so they kind of just walked around us.  Chris insisted we ‘go’, the does were fine but the bucks weren’t.  The antlers were used for attacking and he didn’t want to tempt fate.  LOL.. such a city boy.

The only downer was that at about the hour mark my body did decide that Fibro didn’t like being lost.  I had to push to get back to the car, the trip made longer because of my slower pace.  I did have a flare ending in having to take my meds at home and pretty much crashed out for the night. I feel better today if not still a wee-bit paying for my extra long walk.  Ah well!  I have plans of repeatng the walk but not the extra laps.  I downloaded some trail maps and we will plan better for this coming Saturday.