A Really Nice Hike and a Menu Suggestion

On Tuesday it was a lovely spring day and so we decided to take the day off! We drove to CT where there's no snow on the ground. We had lunch at Pinchot Sycamore tree - which is the largest tree in CT! It's an amazing tree! I'll post some photos and you'll be amazed too.

After lunch we drove to Talcott Mountain and had a really nice hour-long hike up the mountain to Heublien Tower which was built in 1913 as someone's summer home. Part of the trail is along a ridge and there's nothing I love more when hiking than to hike along a ridge in the sunshine. There were amazing views to the west and a nice view of an oxbow of the Farmington River. We could even see the huge sycamore tree from up there! (It's that big.)

We hung out at the top and had a snack then headed down on the Metacomet trail. This was even better than the trail up! More hiking along a ridge. The Metacomet trail went off in a direction that felt wrong so we stayed on the wood road and made our way back through some rather wet spots but it was well worth it. It took us 1 1/2 hours to get down. All in all it was a great afternoon and I'm looking forward to the next adventure.

The video is of a vernal pond with lots of vocal frogs. (and a little humor)