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Tag Archives: Chesterfield Gorge
05.15.2021 Stair-step Moss
Although quite abundant this was my first encounter with Hylocomium splendens. Branched and strongly textured it is not at all like a ball of soft fiber that we often see and is more of a mat on the forest floor. … Continue reading
05.13.2021 Trillium Thursday 2
This is what will likely be the first of a few Painted Trillium-Trillium undulatum posts. For those of you who have been visitors to the blog over the years you know it is a personal favorite and the highlight of … Continue reading
Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora, macro photography, Nature Photography, Western Massachusetts, Wildflowers
Tagged Chesterfield Gorge, flora, Massachusetts, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, painted trillium, The Trustees of Reservations, Trillium undulatum, western massachusetts, Wildflowers
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05.12.2021 Water Wednesday-Chesterfield Gorge
Note the lack of “fall” after water. I had intended to post the waterfall I visited on Monday, it is really more a couple of cascades, but decided it wasn’t working. At least not at this point in time. Rocks … Continue reading
11.12.2019 Flow and Splash
A couple of studies of water in motion. A lot of experimentation takes place when making these. The speed of the flow is not quite the same from place to place and time to time so no one exposure is … Continue reading
Posted in Abstract, Closeup Photography, Environment., Intimate Landscape, Landscape, Nature Photography, Patterns in Nature, Western Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts Waterfalls and Cascades
Tagged Chesterfield Gorge, Dean Brook, intimate landscape, landscape, New England, New England Waterfalls, Shutesbury, splashing water, water in motion, waterfall, waterscape, western massachusetts, Westfield River
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04.01.2017 Scaly Chanterelle and an Orange Chanteuse.
Lots of good April Fool’s stuff going around, but that’s not in my wheelhouse, as they say, so I’ll just post something more summery on this snowy, slushy April 1st. Turbinellus kauffmanii fka Gomphus kauffmanii fka Cantharellus kauffmanii-Kauffman’s Scaly Chantarelle … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Behavior, Closeup Photography, ecology, Fungi, macro photography, Mushrooms, Nature Photography, Trustees of Reservations, Western Massachusetts
Tagged amphibian, Cantharellus kauffmanii, chantarelle, Chesterfield Gorge, eastern newt, eastern red-spotted newt, fungus, Gomphus kauffmanii, mushroom, natural history image, Notophthalmus viridescens, red eft, The Trustees of Reservations, Turbinellus kauffmanii
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03.08.2015 Summer Orange
Today was so confusing. There was a glimmer of a sunrise, followed by the sky becoming quite overcast by late morning. Murphy and I went for a walk and a snow squall popped by for a short visit. This afternoon … Continue reading
09.09.2014 All of me…why not take all of me?
My holy grail for the late summer is the Fringed Gentian (Gentianopsis crinita). If I find one you will see why. Or maybe you already have seen them and know why. However, the calendar says it is still a bit … Continue reading