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...
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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...
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...
swallows by the pond
There were barn swallows, tree swallows, and rough wing swallows, all eagerly swooping above the pond. With my naked eye in the dusky late afternoon, I could not see what their meal was. The camer...
red ash mystery
Clearly, the ash tree likes to do things symmetrically. The trunk in the background shows the typical opposite-branching pattern, the leaf stems in front show the same pattern, and on each leaf, le...
pinecone willow gall-midge
There are so many of these dried cone-like structures on this particular willow tree that I was sure it was some kind of samara or seed pod, despite recalling nothing like it in any description of ...
Heart-leaved willow
The "heart" shape of the leaves is barely discernible, but unlike the other willows, this one has leaves that spread outward and back a bit before curving into a long, typical, willow shape.
False buckthorn
There's just one specimen of this plant, as far as I can tell, but it's a very dense shrub near the pond. I don't know what this strange orange-red growth might be.
Flowering dogwood
In the interior of the park, I haven't seen the showy blossoms (actually bracts) of the flowering dogwood; either they're other dogwood species, or not in flower. But in the public area of the park...
