Photographer: Rochelle Davis (Photo of Distinction)
September 2024
Grassy Hill Preserve
The milkweed seedpods stand up like a candelabra, and as they open, the seeds pop out with their white downy parachute to ride the winds away.
Summer 24
Bumblebee on swamp milkweed
Photographer: Rochelle Davis
July 2024
Private Lyme Habitat
The bumblebees and other pollinators love the milkweed flowers
Indian Pipe
Photographer: Kent Girty
August 2024
Jewett Preserve
Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe. One of my favorite finds in the forest. This one is an unusual pink color. Actually not a fungus but a parasite that feeds off fungus Mycorrhizae. It’s in the same family as blueberries, cranberries, azaleas, and Rhododendrons. Who knew?
Danaus Plexippus
Photographer: Kent Girty
August 2024
Jewett Preserve
Always loved these fellas as a kid and discovering them in a meadow still brings a smile and that familiar feeling of high summer.
A Late Summer Leaf
Photographer: Kent Girty
September 2024
Mount Archer Woods
I love how sunlight on moss highlights anything one finds sitting on top.
Creates a color contrast I find so visually appealing – like this tiny leaf with its mighty color set against the plush moss.