Valley Grove is a special place…two historic churches on top of a hill, surrounded by a cemetery and some lovely pine trees and oak trees…
There was an old, old oak tree that stood in one corner of the cemetery, providing shelter and shade for many gravesites, but it blew down in a 2018 tornado. That was a sad day.
Valley Grove remains a place of beauty…in any season. And one I like to visit often.
I was recently snowshoeing there on a bright, sunshiny day, after a morning of hoar frost that shed its shards onto the freshly fallen snow causing them to sparkle in the sunshine, making us feel like we were walking through diamonds. It was stunning.
We walked for a couple of hours in the glistening and untouched snow, creating paths through the prairie land and into the woods.
We noticed several varieties of animal tracks crating their own paths and sometimes leaving us to wonder what the animals were doing…dancing I’m sure, in the wide open spaces while no one was watching.
This is one of my favorite places, too. I haven’t been here in winter, but it appears beautiful even now. You are prompting me to visit, although I don’t have snowshoes.
It’s a nice place to visit anytime…but harder to get around in the winter although there were a few foot trails.
What a beautiful place. Winter really does wear beauty well!
Yes, it does at times.
Dancing animals… something I will remember next time I see tracks : )
It was a very interesting pattern…a very interactive, circular pattern with no traces of human footprints near-by.