Saturdays Are for Exploring

You know that one street that looks like it's probably just a dead end, so you don't go down it unless you have a destination?  Those are *exactly* the kinds of streets we look for when we go walking on Saturdays.

If you turn onto Baltimore Street off of West Bel Air Avenue in Aberdeen, after about five blocks, it looks like the street is running out.  There are trees between the street and the railroad tracks (the houses stopped a block earlier), but the foliage is thinning as the tracks get closer to the street.  Then, you get to the end, and see that road turns slightly, becoming truly parallel to the tracks again, and appears to go off into the trees.

We kept on going, until there was a healthy helping of "KEEP OUT" and "NO TRESPASSING" signs proliferating on the trees.  Apparently, the road just sort of fades into a final driveway.  We respected the signs.  We did see a creek going under the railroad.

This was about a month ago, when it was still pretty cold out.

This is a great example of rime ice. Or is that hoar frost?  The wind was blowing across this standing water as it froze, so it made little spears of ice that look like they are growing upwards.

It's fun to explore!