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| Clethra Alnifolia |
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| Norwood Farm's Sweet Pepper |
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| The field at Norwood Farm |
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| Hyssop-leaved boneset |
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| Eupatorium Hyssopifolium |
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| Little Ladies Tresses- but which species? |
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| Sickle Leaved Asters beginning to bloom |
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| The last of the Yarrow |
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Early August
The scent of early August in Nantucket is so delightful...the aroma of Sweet Pepper, Clethra Alnifolia, fills the air. I love my early Saturday morning bike ride around the Polpis Loop from Sconset to the Rotary and back to Sconset, and the wonderful smells perfume the island. I love July's smell of privet ....and the scent of the swamp azalea, but sweet pepper is my favorite.
Saturday, June 4, 2016
May 30 Drive to Coskata and the Galls
Tried to show off Great Point Light to Sam and Mari, but the Piping Plovers were born yesterday and we could only go just past the Galls. Seals a swimmin, a loon, barn swallows barn-storming.
Only a couple of Blue Flag in the Windswept Bog...but lots in the wetland across from Skinners Golf course
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| Beach Pea |
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| Rosa Rugosa |
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| I hiked around Stump Pond |
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| Blue eyed Grass |
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| Russian Olive...so fragrant |
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| Golden Heather, Hudsonia Ericoides |
Memorial Day Weekend , May 29 2016 - American RedStart
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| American Redstart at Wauwinet Gatehouse |
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| Kingbird at Windswept Cranberry Bog |
Sunday birding group also saw an OvenBird and heard a White Eyed Vireo, in addition to our usual favorites. Many of the first butterflies of spring, azure blues flitting. Seven week old Arthur's first visit to Nantucket with Sam and Mari this weekend! Josh and my 40th anniversary today.
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| Kingbird at Windswept |
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Wild Geranium, Geranium Maculatum
 Along the roads, Cypress Spurge ( Euphorbia cyparissius), Russian Olive, Tartaric Honeysuckles, fading beech plums, early Golden Heather |
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Middle Moors Hike May 22 2016
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| Birds Foot Violets, Viola Pedata |
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| Black Huckleberry Gaylussacia Baccata |
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| Bearberry |
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| Hudsonia Ericoides, Golden Heather |
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| Beach Plum |
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| Huckleberry |
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| Pout Pond Viola Lanceolata |
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| Trailing Arbutus |
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| Epigea Repens |
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| Quaker Ladies, Hedyotis Caerulea |
Sqaum Swamp Spring May 21 2016
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| Squam Swamp |
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| Cinnamon Fern Rising |
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| Early Canada Mayflower |
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| Maeanthemum Canadense |
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| Quaker Ladies, Hedyotis caerulea |
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| Star flowers, Trientalis borealis, cover the forest floor |
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| Tupelos |
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| The Rapids |
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| Squam Swamp violet, viola lanceolata |
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