Hartmans Park Oct 2024
Photographer: Bob Allard (Honorable Mention)
October 2024
Hartmana s Park
Hartman’s Park hike.
Road to Paradise
Photographer: Steve Olderman
10/25Hamburg Rd
The beautiful road home
BradyBrooke Farms
Photographer: Steve Olderman
10/25Hamburg Rd
Love Lyme
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.
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…
Early Morning with Tiffany
Photographer: Morgan Regan
9/6/2025Tiffany Farms
Early morning rising dew.
A path in Nehantic
Photographer: Kristina White
October 2025Nehantic State Forest
After last year's big cut, the forest is coming back. The sea of thistle with its soft cotton tops created a welcoming path to see what is over the hill.
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.
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
Lady’s Tresses, a CT native orchid
Photographer: Rochelle Davis
July 2025Grassy Hill Preserve
This orchid is about 12" high and hard to spot but so worth looking for. It is one of dozens of orchids native to Connecticut (Genus Spiranthes).
Hartman Park Night Class
Photographer: John Gluszak (Photo of Distinction)
Here is one a little different. I have been working on “light” painting scenes after dark. I thought the classroom area in Hartman Park, would be a tongue-n-cheek attempt at using this technique and implying a night class was in session. This method is created by using 12-15 images blended together, after using a flashlight to illuminate elements.
Welcome
Photographer: Kristina White
2/9/2025
Pleasant Valley Preserve
It looks like the entrance to an enchanted forest
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
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)
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
Doe & Fawn
Photographer: S. Martin (Photo of Distinction)
June 2021Ram's Horn Creek Preserve
Nature reminds us of the profound simplicity of a mother’s love.
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)
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.
Closing up for the season
Photographer: Kristina White
September 2025Pleasant valley Preserve
They exemplify the end of one season and ready for another
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”.
Monarch on Milkweed
Photographer: Joan Rivington
July 7, 2025My backyard on Blood Street
It made me so happy to see this Monarch enjoying the Milkweed in my butterfly garden.
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.
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.
Dill flowers
Photographer: Bryn Souza
June 2025Pollinator/wildlife habitaT
Dill as it flowers in a Lyme field
Trail signs
Photographer: Hong Wan
September 2025Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Trail signs on a half hollowed tree. Tried to capture shape and texture of the tree
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.
Springtide in Lyme
Photographer: Mason Freer
13th March 2025
Fox Hopyards Golf Course
Small natural creek sandwiched between two heavily developed zoysia grasslands.
Jurassic Ravine Trail
Photographer: Sue Wyeth (Photo of Distinction)
May 2025Ravine Trail
Hiking on Ravine Trail May 2025
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.
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.
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
Mushroom tree
Photographer: Hong Wan
September 2025Brockway Hawthorne preserve
Mushroom colony on a tree
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.
A Perfect Winter Day
Photographer: Kristina White
December 2025Pleasant Valley
Epitomizes Winter for me with a bright blue sky and freshly fallen snow!
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.
