Lazing On A Summer Afternoon

What better thing to do on a sunny summer day than to drift into a clump of pickerel weed and just look.

Stowaway

Someone seemed to want to take a free ride around the pond this morning.

 

The Bog

I love living so close to the amazing Philbrik-Cricenti bog in New London, NH.

Today we walked out onto the bog to find a sea of pink orchids.

A sea of pink orchids

Water arum, a native Calla

Cranberry flowers

Calopogan orchid

Sheep laurel

Tall Meadow-Rue

White-Fringed Orchid

Rose Pogonia - I've never seen them here before!

Pitcher plant flower, after the petals have fallen

Rose Pogonia

Bog Rosemary berries

Winterberry flowers

Sunset

This is nothing more than a sunset over Chase Pond on July 2, 2019

Langenau Forest Spur Trail

The spur trail has been cleaned up recently, so we hiked it.  The mosquitoes were glad.