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)
Doe & Fawn
June 2021
Ram's Horn Creek Preserve
Nature reminds us of the profound simplicity of a mother’s love.
Ram's Horn Creek Preserve
Nature reminds us of the profound simplicity of a mother’s love.
Glide Path
May 2023
Ram's Horn Creek
In spring’s rhythm, a bonded pair shares the glide path.
Ram's Horn Creek
In spring’s rhythm, a bonded pair shares the glide path.
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
Outhouse View
06/28/2025
Spar Island, Selden Creek
The sunset view from our outhouse on Spar Island across the marsh from the Selden Creek Preserve.
Spar Island, Selden Creek
The sunset view from our outhouse on Spar Island across the marsh from the Selden Creek Preserve.
It’s the Journey
Photographer: Kristina White
1/20/2025
Pleasant Valley Preserve
Walking through a forest where the snow is still on the branches is a truly special treat
Dill flowers
June 2025
Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Dill as it flowers in a Lyme field
Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Dill as it flowers in a Lyme field
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)
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.
Orb weaver in the sun
June 25
Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Found this sweet little spider showing off its colors in the bright June sun
Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Found this sweet little spider showing off its colors in the bright June sun
Welcome
Photographer: Kristina White
2/9/2025
Pleasant Valley Preserve
It looks like the entrance to an enchanted forest
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.
Springtide in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
13th March 2025
Fox Hopyards Golf Course
Small natural creek sandwiched between two heavily developed zoysia grasslands.
Marsh in Bloom
March 2019
Ram's Horn Creek
Hints of Spring awaken the wetlands
Ram's Horn Creek
Hints of Spring awaken the wetlands
Wintertide in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
3rd February 2025
Seventh Sister Hill
The eccentric William Gillette, among his many idiosyncracies, in 1914 constructed for himself a mansion, styled to a confused marriage between Belle Époque sensibilities and Transylvanian macabre. As is by now well known, he employed various architectural oddities, with hidden passages, elaborate door locks, and a 3 mile long rail track.
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.
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)
Dragon Head
May 2025
Nehantic State Forest
I turned the corner and saw this dragon with its mouth wide open waiting …
Nehantic State Forest
I turned the corner and saw this dragon with its mouth wide open waiting …
Sun Dappled Roaring Brook #2
05/2025
Banningwood Preserve
Just a dreamy view of the brook while resting on the bench, while walking the preserve trail.
Banningwood Preserve
Just a dreamy view of the brook while resting on the bench, while walking the preserve trail.
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.
Winter Wetlands in Selden Creek Preserve
Photographer: Athana K Catlett
January 2024
Selden Creek Preserve
Crossing a stone bridge in Selden Creek Preserve.
Ice & Fog on Falls Brook
Photographer: Birgit Musheno
January 31, 2025Private Lyme Habitat
Foggy winter scene on partially-frozen Falls Brook in Lyme on a late afternoon at the end of January.
Augur Winter Sunrise
Photographer: Joan Rivington (Photo of Distinction)
February 3, 2025Augur Preserve
Early morning stillness after overnight snowfall.
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.
Laurel on Roaring Brook
June 2025
Banningwood Preserve
The laurel directs your eye to the water and what lays beyond the curve of the brook.
Banningwood Preserve
The laurel directs your eye to the water and what lays beyond the curve of the brook.
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.
