biggest musclewood
I had been impressed that the musclewood trees just upstream of Big Falls (west bank) were larger than the ones on the main trail. But on the flood flats just downstream of Big Falls, I found a mus...
elm leaf detail
Note the double-serration along the edge and the dramatic asymmetry at the base. The lateral veins of American Elm, unlike those of Slippery Elm, tend to run parallel all the way to the edge withou...
wild iris
These irises claim their place below Big Falls, in a flat moist area surely subject to high water and fast currents every spring. I don't believe I've seen irises in the wild like this. What tenaci...
bitternut bark
This bitternut hickory grows by the railroad tracks south of Big Falls. Look for the orange-pink layer peeking between the fibrous ribbons of outer bark.
columbine from below
What's remarkable about this image is where I was standing. I'm standing beneath an overhang, with a red speck barely visible above… Below is the same flower (at center top), from the same angle an...
lady slipper (cheat!)
These are not from Wadsworth, alas, but from Canfield Woods (Deep River, CT) this weekend. Still, I must post here. The season has arrived!
branched oyster mushrooms
A peek below shows that insects of various kinds are drawn to take up residence... Apparently, it's an edible and potentially medicinal mushroom, which explains why at least one cluster nearby had...
Sasafras
There's a large grove of sassafras in the Rockfall woods adjoining Wadsworth. So far, I have seen barely any in Wadsworth itself, with the exception of a couple sprouts near a dead trunk across fro...
