Heron Cypress Pond

"When I would recreate myself,
I seek the darkest wood,
the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.
I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum."
  ~~Henry David Thoreau

Tom and I took an early, early, early morning trip to southern Illinois.
We stopped at the cypress pond in Heron Pond.
I am always fascinated by "nursery logs"...

We walked the trails that were still dark.

We took some time to stop to snap a few roadside pictures.
It just seemed like, with temperatures in the 70's,
a perfect time to head "south".
~Nancy ~ 197/365