Saturday, June 20, 2020

Summer Solstice

We've been so lucky to see the days grow longer.  After today,  the shortening of daylight begins.  

It's turtle time:  2 at Windswept Bog earlier this week!  And rubrus species dewberries are blooming all over.   The fox grapes have moved from their pink unfurling to wide green leaves and even some fruiting.  The grasses are high and the scrub oak is leafed out.  Summer!  Those Quaker Ladies,  houstonia caerulea,  are still blooming in the shady places. 



Pasture Thistle: Cirsium Pumilum at Squam Farm 

Cinnamon Ferns as big as me in Squam Swamp

White Thistle:  cirsium pumilum

Eastern Painted Turtle at Windswept Bog

Dewberry:  Rubus flagellaris


June 20:  Walking to Sconset on the beach

Rosa Rugosa on the BluffWalk

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