I went to Roman Nose State Park with my friend Erin this past weekend on 10/28. They have a lot of trails you can hike on and you can see various forms of gypsum all over the place. At the start of the trail the ground glittered from calcite. We saw lots of butterflies hovering around several flowering plants. We went up to inspiration point and I took a nice panorama of Lake Watonga. We didn't see much in the way of wildlife, but it was fun to hike all the way to the south end of the trail system. About half way through we saw a very deep erosion gully next to the trail. I'm not too sure what caused it since there was no running water here, but it probably erodes a little more every time they get rain. We saw several wildflowers and some of the juniper trees had blue berries on them. At the end of the hike, as we crossed the dam, the sun was low enough to give us some nice reflections off of Lake Watonga. I tried zooming in on one spot of these reflections and got one of my favorite shots from this trip. You can see it below, it's called "sun glitter".
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