How Easter was saved

In the end, Easter was saved.  Late in afternoon, we drove to McCormick's Creek State Park to hike.  Hiking is one of my favorite ways to worship.  We headed out on trail five.

Trail 5

 As you can see, most everything is leafed out and green.  (Is "leafed out" a real term or one of mine? Oh well, you know what I mean!)

 Wildflowers blooming everywhere.

Bluebells

 There is an old stone building on the main falls trail- probably built by the Civilian Conservation Corp.

From the outside

from the inside

steps beside the stone building

 more wildflowers along the trail

Trillium

Solomon's seal (with the part hanging down, not the purple)

Star flower

overhead

the power of water

 A small cave at the park, Wolf Cave, is now closed due to the White Nose Syndrome.  I love bats and love to see them come out at night fall.  I hope they find out how to combat this awful situation.  I read some information at the park and it said that to date it is believed that a million bats have died due to this!  Do you know that bats eat mosquitos?  They are our friends. 
I believe the last time I went through this cave was with my son.  Neither of us had a flashlight so we went through it using only the light from our cell phones!  This cave is small and wet and in the end you have to slither out.  (It used to take us only ten to fifteen minutes to get through.)

Wolf cave

closed due to White Nose Syndrome

 Here I am just as we were leaving the park.  I said to Doug "pull over and take my picture with the sign."  Growing up, whenever we would visit a park, my parents would take a photo of me and my brother and sister with the sign.

me- as we were leaving

On the way home, Doug pulled in to an ice-cream place.  I said "what are you doing?"  He said "buying you ice-cream."  I said "I was at my lowest (again) this morning and I don't want to blow it.  I don't need it and neither do you." 
We came home and I baked the pork tenderloin for dinner.  I cried a lot of tears on Easter.  I guess that is what I needed to do.  Thank you for all of the love and words of wisdom.  In the end, the day was saved.  Nothing warms my soul like being in the woods.  It was sixty-four degrees and as you can see, in the end, a beautiful day in more ways than one.