Last week, my nieces, and I went, spent the day at Watkins Mill State Park and Lake. We had a picnic down by the lake, and then we went for a walk on the trail. The trail takes you through the woods, up and around the lake. It is one of my favorite lakes, and trails, because no matter what time you go there, it is always peaceful.

It is also one of my favorite places to go fishing, just sit and write, drive through checking out nature, and walk on the trail. It is a nice quiet lake, because you don’t have the speedboats, and jet skis. My nieces had a great time; they are country tomboys like their aunt, so they were right at home in the woods.

I had some trouble uploading the photos to this post, because they were more then 2MB. A friend of mine helped me set up a flickr account, which I found out I had one since 2007, and just forgot about it, oops. Also not to mention I have been busy with these girls, man I forgot how much work kids are, not used to having them around 24/7. I hope you enjoy the photos.

Oh by the way the date stamp is incorrect on the photos. They were taken August 6th,2009. One day I will figure out my new camera and get that date stamp changed, grins.

 This is the view from the boat docks. 

 The girls playing down by the water down by the boat dock. 

 Off for a walk along the trail through the woods. 

 The girls on one of the birdges on the trail. If you cross the bridge the trail takes you up hill and around the top part of the lake. We took the lower part that day. But the night before we walked up the hill for a couple miles. 

 The two of them thought this was a perfect tree for them to pose by, so I told them okay go pose. 

 This was taken by a creek we found. The best part of walking this trail is all the off the beaten path things and places you find. 

 This is taken down the creek. We thought it was a cool place to hang out. The water was crystal clear. What water was in it anyway, usually with alot of rain it would have been full.

 The two girls resting on a bench, that sat about few feet from where we found the creek. They have these bench all through out the trail. The two of them made good use of just about everyone of them. "No we're not getting tired. Not at all." Then off they would go again. 

 They thought this very tall tree was so cool. My friend said, it is a hickory tree, I would guess that also because of the strange bark. 

 Photo of a spider web. We seen some really awesome looking spider webs down through there. I was shock that I got this one to come out on the picture. 

 They called this "The Hugging Trees". 

 One of the many nest that we found along our way. 

A bird house that we found.

 Photo of the lake through the trees. They were so happy to see the lake through the trees, because that meant the lake was getting closer. Three miles to the lake, so they knew they could stop for a while once they were there.

 The girls posing on one of the bridges on the way back through the woods from the lake.

 Photos of the woods, taken on the way back from the lake. They told me "Start taking more pictures so we can rest for a minute." Oh but they weren't tired at all. 

 Resting on the bench. Half way back to the car. 

 That ends our walk of 6 miles total, from the car to the lake and back. I hope you enjoyed the walk.