Red Rocks National Park

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Spring on the Nature Trail

These are some photos from the Nature Trail here. It is early spring and stuff is alive and I love it! This is at the beginning of the trial where the ground is alot higher and dryer... later the pictures will be more from a swampy boggy area. This misty rainy look is really what spring is like here, we have a few days of sun scattered in but it is always misty rainy and foggy. We had an essay contest at the youth center and one of the kids wrote that what she loved most about spring was the rain, because it means summer is right around the corner.

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There were tons of fern emerging on the trail, it reminded me of New Zealand except of course they are not the size of my face.
Thick Stemmed Wood Fern


This is down in the swampy boggy area

Nodding Anemone

Red Trillium

Asian Skunk Cabbage

Asian Skunk Cabbage
Japanese Mountain Fern

Eastern Skunk Cabbage


Vidal's Lady Fern

False Hellebore


Scarlet Leaved Vibernum
Pine

1 comment:

Chris and Kaite said...

love these pictures. i'm so jealous of all the beautiful green!