Altar Rock

Hiked with Sam, Mari and Chipwich from Gibbs Pond to Altar Rock on Sunday.  The Sickle-Leaved asters are still out in abundance.  Still a little too early for much goldrenrod.  Did catch my first Blazing Star (Liatris)  of the season,  and some early Pearly Everlasting!

Hike Around Stump Pond

How to express the incredible aroma of the Sweet Pepper?  It's like sasparilla...

The sickle-leaved asters are out,  and the bush clover.  No goldenrod yet!

Middle Moors and Pout Ponds

Sickle Leaved Asters, Chrysopsis Falcata

Lichen field with Heathers

Wild Indigo,  Baptisia Tinctoria,  in full bloom

 

Dozens of Wood Lilies

Wood Lilies,  Lilium Philadelphicum,  and Toothed,  White -topped asters,  Seriocarpus asteroids

 

Squam Swamp in mid-July

Looking almost fall-like,  with mushrooms and fungi

Indian pipes

 

Fourth of July in the Middle Moors

Smells of swamp azalea, privet, honeysuckle
The middle of  arrowwood viburnum time...St Johnswort coming on
Stands of colicroot at Windswept Cranberry Bog

In the moors,  Indian pipes and pyrola rotundifolia

Windswept Cranberry Bog and Stump Pond

Wild Iris,  Blue Flag,  heaven

 

 

The first Swamp Azalea (Azalea Viscosa)  of the season on the west end of Stump Pond,  and Sheep Laurel  (Kalmia Angustifolia)   from the east end  

 

 

And Polygala Polyglama,  Racemed Milkwort

 



Squam Swamp in HighWater Time

Black White Warblers, Yellowthroats,  Yellow Warblers
Great Crested Flycatchers
Woodcocks
Towhees, Catbirds
Pitcher Plants
Ox Eye Daisies,  Blue eyed Grass