Fall Walk at Inglewood

This past Sunday was the perfect day for a hike along the Bruce Trail just north of Cheltenham Badlands in Caledon. It was a typical fall day; just cool enough to make walking pleasant, no insects to spoil the experience, and just enough cloud to make the sky interesting. In this area the Bruce Trail follows an upland Beech Oak Forest with fairly mature trees insterspersed at intervals by kettle lakes and limestone rifts. Much of the area is relatively level and follows old logging roads which lead to open spaces that make way for nature's flower garden.

In many locations older trees show signs of the work of nature's foresters boring for incects.

Dead and dying trees show signs of various fungi at work at returning cellulose fibre to the earth.

On the return journey along local roads one passes palatial estates and horse farms proving that only the wealthy can afford to live this close to the escarpment.