Earlier this week we visited Nerstrand Big Woods State Park in southeast Minnesota. The park contains a beautiful forest and small waterfall (although the waterfall was just a trickle during our visit). The park gets its name from the Big Woods, a large forested area covering much of central Minnesota prior to the arrival of European settlers. We walked in to check out the waterfall but as I mentioned there wasn't much water and since we were there mid-day the light was pretty harsh. So, we continued on the trail which traversed a hillside that was filled with some really impressive trees that still had quite a bit of fall color on them. We walked past several Bur Oaks and Jessica pointed out how interesting the bark was on these magnificent trees. Once she pointed out the bark I went up to one of the the trees for a closer look. Indeed, it was fascinating. Certainly unlike anything that we have in the extreme northeast tip of Minnesota. I used the built-in HDR feature of my Sony RX100 camera to capture a better range of detail in this scene.
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