Photographer: Rochelle Davis
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).
Monarch caterpillar in Grassy Hill Preserve
Photographer: Rochelle Davis (Photo of Distinction)
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.
Roaring Brook Ripples
Photographer: John Gluszak (Photo of Distinction)
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.
Early Morning with Tiffany
Photographer: Morgan Regan
9/6/2025
Tiffany Farms
Early morning rising dew.
Closing up for the season
Photographer: Kristina White
September 2025
Pleasant valley Preserve
They exemplify the end of one season and ready for another