Cedar Falls Trail

Finally after days and days of rain all month – I think I heard someone say we have had 25 days of rain in the month of October.  The sun was shinning today and believe it or not we are to have a whole week of sunshine and in the 60′s — keep your fingers crossed.  I do not know how some of you cope with rain in so much of your daily life – like the Seattle area for example and other places too I know but Seattle pops in my head for having a lot of rain.  Maybe I think of Seattle because my blogging friend Crispy is there right now!  I find it depressing to have rain all the time.

We took advantage of the sunny day to get out of the house.  A park that we love is Petit Jean State Park about 40 miles from our house.  We have been hiking the trail called “Cedar Falls” for close to 30 years.  It is a 2 mile round trip trail.  One mile down – one mile up – you really feel it on the way up believe me.  Normally there is not very much water coming over the falls except in the spring.  The water in the river was higher than we remember ever seeing it.  The amount of water coming over the falls was spectacular!  I do not remember ever seeing that much water coming over the falls – of course I’m sure there have been times after heavy rains that we just had not gone to the park.  Here are a series of photos of the Trail.  (One the link that I placed above there is a series of rotating photos advertising the park – they have one of Cedar Falls Trail which shows the normal small amount of water – the difference is amazing).

the river on the way to the falls - normally this water is fairly still, not rushing like it is now. There was water in places on the trail also - not deep but you had to walk through a bit of it here and there in places that are normally dry.

the high water under the bridge

Mike taking a photo of me taking a photo of him

Cedar Falls -- this is normally a trickle of water coming over the falls at this time of year. Sometimes in the spring it looks like this but I do believe the water in the pool was deeper than I had ever seen it.

more of the river by the bridge

the trail head over looking the canyon the falls are in

the sign at the trail head

A lot of people felt the same way we did today I think – the park was packed.  In fact Mike ran into 3 people he knows from work taking advantage of the sunshine also.

This evening I have gotten started cutting my bias binding – I haven’t gotten much done but I did do a little while I was waiting for the photo’s to load on the computer.  I will work on more of that tomorrow.

(Melanie I know you are excited that I am done with the quilting on “Insanity” – but remember I said I was going to enjoy it for awhile first before handing it off to you!!  I never said how long that was going to be LOL)