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After we shared our Thanksgiving meal with Ed’s family in Fairfield, I split off from the McCracken/Bonnet family farms tour and walked the Fairfield Loop Trail.

It’s a 15.9 mile loop, known as Fairfield’s “emerald necklace.” I walked a mere stretch of it on my ramble.

If you read my Skunk River photo essay, you’ll remember Avy and I stumbled upon a dilapidated bridge on the Skunk River Trail. Today I discovered another bridge, which I made a photo study of, along with pictures of milkweeds.

I didn’t know at the time that I was snapping photos of milkweeds. I found them interesting, and when I got back to the house, I had to ask Ed’s brother, Charles, what they were. I must be the only person in the world who didn’t know that milkweeds attract monarch butterflies.

Milkweeds are also fascinating to photograph.

Anyway, enjoy my photo essay of my Thanksgiving 2017 walk.

Hay Bale Field

An idyllic pond

There are many bridges and benches along the 15.9 mile trail.

They are considered public art.

The Trail has received many grants, including one from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Art such as this bridge creates landmarks along the trail, and “enhances it aesthetically.”

Precarious Hide-and-Seek

Hollywood Along the Trail

A Pop of Orange

Milkweed Sky

Milkweed Sky 2

Milkweed Selfie

Milkweed Sunset

November Grey Milkweed

Milkweed Sunset 2

Lucky Fairfield – the Fairfield Loop Trail Commemorative Marker