Sultry Day in the Wetlands
Photographer: Douglas White
July 8, 2025Nehantic State Forest
A sultry day in the wetlands
Orb weaver in the sun
Photographer: Bryn Souza
June 25Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Found this sweet little spider showing off its colors in the bright June sun
Tosh assesses the Terrain
Photographer: Sue Wyeth
May 2024Ravine Trail
Hiking with Tosh & friends on Ravine Trail May 22024
Nehantic Wilderness Waterway
Photographer: Douglas White
July 8, 2025Nehantic State Park
A stop on the road through the Nehantic State Forest gives a peek at the watery wilderrness I will probably never penetrate.
Doe & Fawn
Photographer: S. Martin (Photo of Distinction)
June 2021Ram's Horn Creek Preserve
Nature reminds us of the profound simplicity of a mother’s love.
Glowing Witch Hazel
Photographer: Meera Rangwala
3/2025
Private Lyme Habitat
The Witch Hazel Tree is a native species that flowers during the winter. Vibrant purple or orange blossoms light the trees, similar to a witch's cauldron spewing out sparks.
Youth (17 and younger)
Iced Grasses
Photographer: Birgit Musheno (Photo of Distinction – Honorable mention)
January 12, 2025
Private Lyme habitat, Brush Hill Rd.
January weather creates unique ice forms on dried meadow grass at the edge of a beaver dam.
Duck Pond
Photographer: Douglas White
July 8, 2025Nehantic State Forest
A view towards a duck house is imbued with rich wetland complexity and patterns. That there were no ducks mattered little…
Augur Winter Sunrise
Photographer: Joan Rivington (Photo of Distinction)
February 3, 2025Augur Preserve
Early morning stillness after overnight snowfall.
Springtide in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
13th March 2025
Fox Hopyards Golf Course
Small natural creek sandwiched between two heavily developed zoysia grasslands.
Outhouse View
Photographer: Kaia Lay Rafoss
06/28/2025Spar Island, Selden Creek
The sunset view from our outhouse on Spar Island across the marsh from the Selden Creek Preserve.
Monarch caterpillar in Grassy Hill Preserve
August 2025
Grassy Hill Preserve
The preserve is filled with butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and also full of monarch butterflies laying their eggs on the butterfly weed and the monarch caterpillars eating away on the plant. The upside of not mowing fields with butterfly weed from May through September is that the monarchs can feed and make more butterflies.
Grassy Hill Preserve
The preserve is filled with butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and also full of monarch butterflies laying their eggs on the butterfly weed and the monarch caterpillars eating away on the plant. The upside of not mowing fields with butterfly weed from May through September is that the monarchs can feed and make more butterflies.
Lady’s Tresses, a CT native orchid
July 2025
Grassy Hill Preserve
This orchid is about 12" high and hard to spot but so worth looking for. It is one of dozens of orchids native to Connecticut (Genus Spiranthes).
Grassy Hill Preserve
This orchid is about 12" high and hard to spot but so worth looking for. It is one of dozens of orchids native to Connecticut (Genus Spiranthes).
Mt.Laurel blooming
Photographer: jos konst (Photo of Distinction – Honorable Mention)
June 2023
selden preserve
Mt.Laurel blooming along vernal pool
Early Morning with Tiffany
9/6/2025
Tiffany Farms
Early morning rising dew.
Tiffany Farms
Early morning rising dew.
Winter Magic on Whalebone Cove
Photographer: Athana K Catlett (Photo of Distinction)
January 2022
Overlooking Whalebone Cove from Joshuatown Rd.
Photo taken from Joshuatown Rd after a snowfall.
Winter Wetlands in Selden Creek Preserve
Photographer: Athana K Catlett
January 2024
Selden Creek Preserve
Crossing a stone bridge in Selden Creek Preserve.
Luff Shores summer evening
Photographer: Lori Lanning from Luff Farms
July 3rd, 2025Luff Shores -Point Penninsula
Kayaking at the end of the day.
Glide Path
Photographer: S. Martin
May 2023Ram's Horn Creek
In spring’s rhythm, a bonded pair shares the glide path.
Jurassic Ravine Trail
Photographer: Sue Wyeth (Photo of Distinction)
May 2025Ravine Trail
Hiking on Ravine Trail May 2025
Dill flowers
Photographer: Bryn Souza
June 2025Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Dill as it flowers in a Lyme field
Monarch on Milkweed
Photographer: Joan Rivington
July 7, 2025My backyard on Blood Street
It made me so happy to see this Monarch enjoying the Milkweed in my butterfly garden.
Wintertide in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
3rd February 2025
Seventh Sister Hill
The eccentric William Gillette, among his many idiosyncracies, in 1914 constructed for himself a mansion, styled to a confused marriage between Belle Époque sensibilities and Transylvanian macabre. As is by now well known, he employed various architectural oddities, with hidden passages, elaborate door locks, and a 3 mile long rail track.
Welcome
Photographer: Kristina White
2/9/2025
Pleasant Valley Preserve
It looks like the entrance to an enchanted forest
Native Bee Balm in the Grassy Hill Preserve
August 2025
Grassy Hill Preserve
The Grassy Hill Preserve showcases native plants that mix with the nearby human built environment.
Grassy Hill Preserve
The Grassy Hill Preserve showcases native plants that mix with the nearby human built environment.
Sunrise over Lyme Hills
Photographer: Dawn H
May 2025CT Riverfront
Early morning walk along CT riverfront capturing the beauty of sunrise over the Lyme hills
Ice & Fog on Falls Brook
Photographer: Birgit Musheno
January 31, 2025Private Lyme Habitat
Foggy winter scene on partially-frozen Falls Brook in Lyme on a late afternoon at the end of January.
Mushroom tree
September 2025
Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Mushroom colony on a tree
Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Mushroom colony on a tree
Winter sunset on the CT River
Photographer: Athana K Catlett
March 2025
Hadlyme ferry boat launch
Just before the sun set on a still evening in March.
Closing up for the season
September 2025
Pleasant valley Preserve
They exemplify the end of one season and ready for another
Pleasant valley Preserve
They exemplify the end of one season and ready for another
Dragon Head
Photographer: Kristina White
May 2025Nehantic State Forest
I turned the corner and saw this dragon with its mouth wide open waiting …
Walking tree
September, 2025
Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Photo taken on a Tuesday land trust hike. The unusual look of the tree caught my eyes, the possible reason for this shape could be that the tree was grown initially on a dead tree log, when the log rotten away, you got a tree with “legs”.
Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Photo taken on a Tuesday land trust hike. The unusual look of the tree caught my eyes, the possible reason for this shape could be that the tree was grown initially on a dead tree log, when the log rotten away, you got a tree with “legs”.
The Beginning of Spring
Photographer: Kristina White
4/2/2025
Selden Creek Preserve
The stream appears behind the leaves and rocks rushing after a recent Spring rain.
Roaring Brook Ripples
July 2025
Roaring Brook Preserve
I find woodland photography to be somewhat difficult. Wide shots often do not convey the feeling I get when I'm walking through the woods. When that happens, I tend to look for details in close up images instead. I happened to notice the ripples and the color reflections in the brook created by a stick that got stuck in the flow of the water.
Roaring Brook Preserve
I find woodland photography to be somewhat difficult. Wide shots often do not convey the feeling I get when I'm walking through the woods. When that happens, I tend to look for details in close up images instead. I happened to notice the ripples and the color reflections in the brook created by a stick that got stuck in the flow of the water.
Icy Falls
Photographer: Meera Rangwala
2/2025
Banningwood Preserve
Blocks of ice form in the brook, and shape the flow of the water. These blocks have created a mini waterfall.
Youth (17 and younger)
Ice Cold Plunge Couple
Photographer: Ally Spurling (Photo of Distinction)
C. February 2025
Ely’s Ferry
A chance encounter with this very brave couple breaking the ice drifts to cold plunge together. The sky was so unbelievable I drove down to enjoy the sunset and happened upon them.
