May 22nd. In Portland, the Air Line bridge over the Connecticut River.

 

 

 

 

 

The modern vehicle and pedestrian bridge just upstream a bit.

 

 

 

Yellow Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis).

 

Next, walking west from Depot Hill Road in Cobalt, Dame's Rocket (Hesperis matronalis) in a slightly pink form.

 

 

 

More Dame's Rocket in various colors.

 

White Clover (Trifolium repens).

 

Smaller Hop Clover (Trifolium procumbens).

 

Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)...

 

...inflorescence is made up of many small flowers.

 

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is the most inrvasive weed along the trail, even more so than the obnoxious Garlic Mustard.

 

Another Dragonfly (Order Odonata) that I can't identify.

 

Evening Lychnis (Lychnis alba).

 

 

 

False Solomon's-Seal (Smilacina racemosa).

 

Quite a rock cut...

 

...with Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) in bud at its base.

 

 

 

Passing by an electric plant and transmission towers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridge over a road.

 

That's what it looks like below.

 

End of the line for me. I turned back here.

 

A young Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera). How's that for a Latin name! Say it outloud.

 

Passed by a cell tower... with a crow on it.

 

Passed a few dead Eastern Tent Caterpillars (Malacosoma americanum).

 

The invasive Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus) in the poppy family.

 

Note: The sap can be irratating to skin and eyes; and the plant is generally toxic.

 

Back to where I started.

 

May 23rd. Back to my usual Raymond Brook Marsh, and a Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans).

 

 

 

No work today with the holiday weekend underway, but fair progress yesterday.

 

Among other things, they've removed the vestiges of road where the digger had been.

 

Some last chunks of pavement.

 

Near the mural, Common or Philadelphia Fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus).

 

First Ox-eye Daisys ((Leucanthemum vulgare; formerly Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) at the same spot.

 

 

 

May 25th. Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) wishing the wet weather would go away.

 

Pink Azalea or Pinxter-flower (Rhododendron nudiflorum) looking pretty bedragled.

 

Common Oak Fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris).

 

Hop Clover (Trifolium agrarium) I think.

 

American Robin (Turdus migratorius) with a mouth full of worms.

 

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura).

 

With all the recent rain, Raymond Brook is flowing fast.

 

With pumps off through the long holiday weekend, water has gotten pretty deep behind the barrier.

 

 

 

 

 

Digger parked up the hill away from the work area.