Jane Bourquin and I went on a wildflower walk today. Jane will be leading walks the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month, and they'll be announced in the monthly calendar (this one wasn't).
First we went over Bridge#5 on Yellow Trail #12 to The Island (4 o'clock on the red trail)
Then we went north along the red trail and walked a short distance on Yellow Trail #11.
Along Pebble Run we saw a few Lesser Celendine in bloom. And many more (sort of a ground cover) that will soon be in bloom. Lesser Celendine was a favorite of Rudy Salati and of William Wordsworth -- HERE'S THE POEM BY WORDSWORTH.
However Jane dislikes it because it takes over and crowds out other plants.
This is a photo from Delaware Wildflowers site where the Lesser Celandine are crowding out Virginia Bluebells. The captions says "this plant covers acres of the Brandywine River floodplain."
This is a photo from Delaware Wildflowers site where the Lesser Celandine are crowding out Virginia Bluebells. The captions says "this plant covers acres of the Brandywine River floodplain."
We took another photo looking up Pebble Run toward Bridge #3 - I liked the Beech with the white leaves leftover from last year. Then we walked along the run up to the red trail and back to the car where we started -- near Bridge #5.
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Tuesday March 22. I added two photos that Jane took on Saturday. Each is 799 pixels wide. This means the photos won't count toward our quota on Google (which now owns blogspot). ~maggie (who is logged in as ABT)
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