Crooked Creek Lake
A quick decision, the evening before, had Laurie and I, hiking the Laurel point Trail at Crooked Creek State Park on August 25. This park is located south of Ford City, Pennsylvania. 
The trail is around two miles in length. The path follows along Crooked Creek Lake, but one can’t see the waters for most of the walk. The trail, also, loops around at the end and any hiker will come back and walk some of the original path through the woods on their return.
One will walk, initially, through meadow and wetland-like areas. These sites have plenty of flower species to view. We could hear many annual cicadas here. Locating the insect can be difficult in spite of their mating noise. Other areas have various pine species and deciduous woodlands. Scattered about are some mature oak, beech and white pine as well. 
We crossed Coal Bank Hollow at one point. I had hunted spring gobblers with, my friend, Kip Feroce near here in the past. He has a hunting camp nearby.
Millipede
The entire venture took us over two hours to complete. We saw two deer and the usual bird life and chipmunks. We stumbled onto a hornet’s nest. The occupants were very nice to us and allowed passage. Lots of various fungus and toad stools are growing as September closes in on the year.
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