A glimpse of Middle-earth

Remember I mentioned last week I was going to be away for a bit?  One of the places we went was Middle-earth...

On this side of the River they passed forests of great reeds, so tall that they shut out all view to the west, as the little boats went rustling by along their fluttering borders. Their dark withered plumes bent and tossed in the light cold airs, hissing softly and sadly. Here and there through openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling meads, and far beyond them hills in the sunset, and away on the edge of sight a dark line, where marched the southernmost ranks of the Misty Mountains.  (FotR, "The Great River")

( View from the River )

 So, it wasn't really Middle-earth -- it was the Kettle Moraine State Forest in Wisconsin -- but it sure is easy to imagine being in another world when our world has places like this in it!  :-D