On the Trails of IES

Along the Way

• An island of pansies was behind Gifford House.
• The Xeriscape bed held rock cress, windflower, and lungwort.
• A magnolia was blooming by the Carriage House.
• Close up, one could see that the blossoms are more than just white.
• The fallen oak on the Sedge Meadow Trail offered studies in texture.
• Leaves of trout-lily were thick along the Wappinger Creek Trail near trail marker #8.
• Spicebush was blooming at the lowest section of the trail between markers 9 & 10.
• Emerging through the flood deposits were bloodroot.
• They were almost glowing.
• Climbing the Cary Pines I encountered a tree snapped over at the knee.
• Leaving through the Old Gravel Pit, I noted that the water was still surprisingly expansive.

In the Fern Glen

• It was gray and cool; the round-lobed hepatica along the road were waiting for the sun to open.
• The Dutchman's breeches were fine with the weather.
• Spring beauty seemed abundant this year.
• In the limestone cobble, sharp-lobed hepatica was coming up through maidenhair spleenwort.
• Near the kiosk trout-lily was actually flowering.
• Colt's foot could be found in many locations.
• But there's only one singular location I know of for the Carolina spring beauty.

Birds