Native Bee Balm in the Grassy Hill Preserve
Photographer: Rochelle Davis
August 2025Grassy Hill Preserve
The Grassy Hill Preserve showcases native plants that mix with the nearby human built environment.
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.
I Spy with my Little Eye…
Photographer: Kristina White (Photo of Distinction)
August 2025John Pritchard Conservation Center
I was watering when I saw our little visitor who was using our place for its home
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…
The Wolf Tree
Photographer: Rich Sanders
January 26, 2025
Honey Hill Preserve
Honey Hill's wolf tree was a commanding presence on this winter walk. Thanks to the Preserve Brochure I saw this tree in an earlier time, keeping watch as a lone sentinel over a sleeping field. https://www.lymelandtrust.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/HoneyHill031321WEB.pdf
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.
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
Monarch caterpillar in Grassy Hill Preserve
Photographer: Rochelle Davis (Photo of Distinction)
August 2025Grassy 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.
Tosh assesses the Terrain
Photographer: Sue Wyeth
May 2024Ravine Trail
Hiking with Tosh & friends on Ravine Trail May 22024
Orange and Yellow Moss
Photographer: Anonymous
December 18, 2025Private Habitat
The bright red and yellow capsules on this moss stand out like little torches on a late fall day.
Autumn in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
20th October 2024Due North of former Ed Bill's Pond
The small valley behind my house, formed by the mini creek which feeds into the river, is home to many quantities of large granite rock, deposited in prehistoric times some 20,000 years ago . A large depression, slightly to the left off screen, was dug in the 1930s as a stone quarry for a dam, which formed a pond in the valley just ahead.
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.
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)
A Perfect Winter Day
Photographer: Kristina White
December 2025Pleasant Valley
Epitomizes Winter for me with a bright blue sky and freshly fallen snow!
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
Uncas in October
Photographer: Joan Rivington (Photo of Distinction)
October 10,2025
Uncas Pond, Lyme
Vibrant evening colors of Uncas in October.
Monarch enjoying a meal
Photographer: Rosa Dupre
09/27/2025Beaver Brook, home backyard
As I was walking in my backyard around lunchtime, I saw this beautiful Monarch enjoying the new England Asters.
Sultry Day in the Wetlands
Photographer: Douglas White
July 8, 2025Nehantic State Forest
A sultry day in the wetlands
Road to Paradise
Photographer: Steve Olderman
10/25Hamburg Rd
The beautiful road home
Dragon Head
Photographer: Kristina White
May 2025Nehantic State Forest
I turned the corner and saw this dragon with its mouth wide open waiting …
Mimicking Mom
Photographer: Rich Sanders
June 14, 2025Private Lyme Habitat – Falls Brook Cove
Just for fun. Every year the swans nesting in Hamburg Cove bring there cygnets into Falls Brook. I choose to interpret this sequence as the little one "learning to be big."
Sun Dappled Roaring Brook #2
Photographer: John Gluszak (Photo of Distinction)
05/2025Banningwood Preserve
Just a dreamy view of the brook while resting on the bench, while walking the preserve trail.
BradyBrooke Farms
Photographer: Steve Olderman
10/25Hamburg Rd
Love Lyme
The Elephant in the Room
Photographer: Meera Rangwala
12/2024Private Lyme Habitat
A small grain of salt has an outsized impact on the surrounding snow.
Youth (17 and younger)
Roaring Brook Ripples
Photographer: John Gluszak (Photo of Distinction)
July 2025Roaring 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.
Jurassic Ravine Trail
Photographer: Sue Wyeth (Photo of Distinction)
May 2025Ravine Trail
Hiking on Ravine Trail May 2025
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.
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.
Lost Ladder
Photographer: Birgit Musheno
3/1/2025Brockway-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.
Dill flowers
Photographer: Bryn Souza
June 2025Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Dill as it flowers in a Lyme field
Closing up for the season
Photographer: Kristina White
September 2025Pleasant valley Preserve
They exemplify the end of one season and ready for another
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.
Peace
Photographer: Steve Olderman
10/25Hamburg Rd
Bradybrooke Farms
Laurel on Roaring Brook
Photographer: Kristina White
June 2025Banningwood Preserve
The laurel directs your eye to the water and what lays beyond the curve of the brook.
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.
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)
