Part One: Canyon Falls; Late Autumn, Before the Snow

We've had snow here for a few weeks now,

but I still haven't finished

showing you late autumn photos

I have taken.

I'm almost done, so you can expect some

winter wonderland photos sometime soon...

if I can get out there and get some!

In October, our newly-formed local photography club

went out on a field trip to one of my favorite places to get photos.

I have featured Canyon Falls on my blog before.

Today, here is Part ONE of the pictures I took out there that day.

Although the leaves were all off the trees, we had a really nice warm and sunny day to go there.

As you make your way down the river, the closer and closer you come

to the falls, the more of a canyon the river has cut into the hills.

I love these rock walls:

And the falls were throwing up a terrific mist

that the sunbeams captured:

Like roaring root beer!:

(Oh great, now I have made myself hungry!)

A shot of the beautiful falls with a slower shutter speed:

At the end of the falls, there is a little fence.

Which must mean to stop there.

But you know ME....

I had to keep climbing the rocks to get farther downstream!

I am SO glad I did...because some of the best pictures

were beyond the usual  hiking path to the falls.

The rocky cliffs here on the river look more like Colorado

than Michigan!:

Suddenly, I have the urge to to

whitewater rafting.

Wait.

Never Mind.

I think I want to live.

I have lots more photos to share with you

on my next blogpost...

But here is one last shot.

We saw this CAVE on the hike to

the waterfalls....

I was afraid to imagine what might live in there!:

I wasn't about to go IN THERE

to wake anything up that was beginning its winter slumber...

would YOU??

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