Naturally Creepy Places Week - A Foggy Cook Forest
In keeping with the upcoming month-ending holiday, during the week of October 18th through the 22nd, WPC Daily will feature five creepy locales and offer some scientific facts that may shed some light on these places. At the end of the week, we will invite you to vote for your favorite. The winning NCP will be announced on Thursday, October 28th.
Today we explore a foggy forest, replete with the welcoming sounds of a distant eastern screech owl. Technically, fog is a visible aggregate cloak of minute water particle (droplets) which is based at the Earth's surface and reduces horizontal visibility to less than 5/8 statue mile, and unlike drizzle (freezing rain), it does not fall to the ground.
Today's photo was taken at the 7,182-acre Cook Forest State Park (Clarion and Forest counties), which was once called the 'Black Forest.' The area is famous for its stands of old growth forest. Cook Forest's 'Forest Cathedral' of towering white pines and hemlocks is a National Natural Landmark. The Clarion River meanders around the southern border of the park and is popular for canoeing and rafting.
Tyger Tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake - 1757 - 1827 Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German Proverb
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