Although it remained quite chilly, today was a gorgeous spring day, sunny and calm, and I wanted to get some fresh air. So I headed out to Wells State Park, which is about a 15 minute drive from my house, and hiked for about an hour, uphill toward Carpenter’s Rocks, then looping back along the South Trail toward the parking lot.

The Park includes camping sites and is quite popular in the summer. This schematic map is behind glass outside the Visitor’s Center.

Here is a photo I took along the South Trail, with the bare trees casting spindly shadows and the lichen-covered rocks of an old stone wall marking one edge of the path.

I’m standing at the eastern edge of Walker Pond, on the opposite shore from the public beach; in the distance I could see traffic on the Mass Pike. It was blissfully quiet though.