share the shot #5-orange

 another week has zipped by and i found this share the shot assignment to be a real challenge.  i am not a fan of the color orange and finding it in my house and garden was tough.  the only plant that blooms orange in my garden is an iris and it has not done so yet.  as i wondered what i could possibly find to take pictures of, i decided to just go and bake a cake; in my world, almost anything can be solved by baking a cake to share or eat by yourself as you ponder...

 clementines

 clementine zest

 my not so smart cell phone-hey it makes calls and sends texts, that's all i need

 wait for it

 we went hiking and found these-any idea what the are?  tell me cause i'm stumped...

 mushrooms-unknown species of polyspores

my little girl on my favorite reading chair-twice the orange!

many thanks to amy of she wears many hats for the wonderful challenge!

henry horton state park; date #8, a hike through a cedar glade

 so, we are trying to keep up with the dates and are definitely running a little behind.  we had a nice warm afternoon together and decided to head to a park we had never visited before.  this area has several cedar glades and we chose to visit the one in the henry horton state park located in chapel hill.  there are 3 trails to hike but the hickory ridge loop runs around a cedar glade.  if it looks this beautiful in january, imagine what it will be like in the spring when the native wildflowers begin to bloom.  we plan to go back to see that for ourselves.

 we actually left the trail and walked down to the bottom of this crevice.  the temperature immediately dropped about 10-15 degrees and it was incredible to look at up close.  amazing what water can do!

 peek-a-boo...a natural hole/tunnel in the rocks 

 ferns growing in the moss on the rocks

 lichen-they just rest on the ground, no roots to attach them

 close up of the moss and lichen

 a cedar tree growing in the rocks

 cactus? we found a bunch of them

 what the trail looked like

 we weren't the only ones hiking the trails-deer were following the path too!  we also came across a flock of wild turkey.

 we followed these yellow paint marks to make our loop on the trail.  it took us about an hour since we stopped a lot.  afterwards, we went for lunch at martins bbq in nolensville.

 pulled pork sammiches!  fresh cut fries, mmmm.....

little piggy at the door of martins bbq