Autumnal forest

Caspar and I had a lovely stroll through the woods north of Dieburg. Mostly on a regular path or even road. But one part was very wet.
We walked along the border of the "Fohlenweide von Dieburg", a nature reserve. I had chosen to follow a route someone else had followed before me and published.
Well, at one point the path started to get wet, and overgrown with blackberries. Since it was a published route I continued, and ended up with soaking wet shoes, socks, feet and jeans shanks. At one point I had no other choice than to either go back or try to step over a creek. I stepped right in the middle, with Caspar next to me. The bank was as high as my head. And the mud of the creek bed was trying to steal my shoes.
The blackberries, a terrible tangle of branches and stems, with their lovely thorns, were also trying to hold us back. One moment Caspar was not following me anymore, he did not move. The reason? Blackberry branches were around his body and even completely around one leg, thus making him immovable.
I will make a note on the wanderer website about the bad condition of the path, hopefully stopping other people to make the same error.

Back home we found a lot of ticks on/in Caspar's fur. We killed at least two dozen. And later I discovered a big one on my calf. At least it had not found a place to have dinner yet :)