2021-07-13: Joseph D Kollar Road

Since I've been working full-time again, and in a job that requires me to be on my feet all the time, I've found it difficult to gather the time and motivation to go on regular road-walks after work. On a cloudy Tuesday earlier this month, I managed to walk a six-mile loop in northern Cairo along German Hill and Joseph D Kollar roads. Like Frank Hitchcock Road, Joseph D Kollar Road is named after one of the young men from Cairo killed in World War One.

Roads walked: CR-41, CR-67, German Hill Road, Joseph D Kollar Road

Small waterfalls flow through a tiny stream along the side of Route 41.

A small tributary of the Jan de Bakkers Kill, overflowing its banks on account of heavy rain. Early July brought the worst flooding to the area since Hurricane Irene in 2011.

More small waterfalls hidden deep in the dark forest. Photographing forests on cloudy days is very difficult due to the low levels of light.

Mist gives a distant look to trees just a few hundred feet off the road.

An old cemetery along Route 41, where it seems every gravestone leans in one direction or another.

A rock covered in moss at the foot of a white pine tree. Surrounded by dense forests and lacking in fields, this walk unfortunately didn't have many spectacular things to photograph.

A small yellow-orange mushroom, probably a chanterelle, grows on the forest floor along German Hill Road.

Some sort of plant just starting to flower in a marsh along Joseph D Kollar Road. The picture doesn't show enough detail for me to conclusively identify it.

Toadflax flowers (Linaria vulgaris) also bloomed in the swampy area.

Out in the distance, on the far side of a stream, I spotted a single earthmover deep in the forest, perhaps abandoned after some long-forgotten project.

A deer grazes beside a round haybale on a field along Joseph D Kollar.

A deer in an adjacent field fled when I approached too close. The fields at the north end of this road were filled with deer all throughout the evening.

Looking south from Route 67, along the border with Greenville, mimics this picture taken on a walk I took last November.