Imagining Lyme

A Visual Exploration of Lyme's Preserves

Winter 25

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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)

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Lighting Lyme

Photographer: Meera Rangwala (Photo of Distinction)

3/2025
Private Lyme Habitat
These witch hazel orange blossoms glow in the sunset. They seem like lanterns lighting our way to a better future.
Youth (17 and younger)

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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)

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Lost Ladder

Photographer: Birgit Musheno

3/1/2025
Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve
Old wooden ladder, probably from a long-gone hunting blind, left behind and highlighted in the slanting winter afternoon sun from the White trail in Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve.

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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.