Imagining Lyme

A Visual Exploration of Lyme's Preserves

Photos of Distinction

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Walking tree

Photographer: Hong Wan (Honorable Mention)

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”.

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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.

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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.