Taking Time to Smell the Flowers

The weather lately has been wet, wet, wet.  As a consequence gardening has gotten slower and muddier, weeding has grown much easier and three and a half miles or so of trails cry-out for deferred maintenance. 

Yesterday afternoon I caught a break between storms and the girls and I were able to get out and fetch the SD cards from the trail cameras and inspect what's going on here at The Platz.

Check this out....

Gray-Headed Cone Flowers

Monarch caterpillar and Sweet Joe-Pye Weed











Strikingly-beautiful Blue Vervain

Towering eight foot tall Compass Plant

More Gray-Headed Coneflower amid the Fireweed (Evening Primrose) and a Monarch












And a Friterary Butterfly hanging out in the Joe-Pye Weed...

 

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