The Westermark woods near the town of Syke are my favourite local hiking spot and have been featured several times in these pages before.
Today was frosty and sunny, i.e. ideal hiking weather, so I drove out to the Westermark woods. I also took my camera along and managed to capture some truly magical light in the woods. So take a look:
My car parked at the entrance of the Westermark woods near Syke, North Germany.
Light falling through the bare trees
Light falling through the forrest.
The stump of a freshly cut tree.
A hunter’s seat in the woods.
Another hunter’s seat
Light and shadows
More light and shadows.
The sun shines through dense fir tree growth.
A rather dark path.
A tree felled by a storm a few days before Christmas blocks the path.
Panorama with hut and sun.
It’s the field at the center of Westermark forest.
In winter, the light falls along a path directly onto the field at the center of the woods in a Stonehenge like phenomenon. Maybe we should call it Westermark henge.
And here is the path in question.
A path at the edge of the woods.
The edge of the woods and the fields beyond.
The treasure is here. Okay, so it really is just a sign sprayed onto the tree for the woodsmen.
Trees lit up by the sun.
sending...
Love the shots. Looking at the hunting blinds I began to wonder when “hunting” went from being on foot and stalking your prey with a rifle to just sitting on one’s ass in a station above a bait feeder.
Kind of sad, isn’t it? It certainly wasn’t this way when I was growing up.
I remember seeing hunter’s stations very much like these from fairly early in my childhood on. And since I grew up in an area where hunting is common, I saw a lot of those seats. I don’t know when they were first introduced, but they were firmly entrenched by the 1970s/1980s. And yes, it is kind of sad.
Glad you like the photos, BTW.