What's Your Nature?

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Encounters

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Wishes at sunset

Photo of the forest along the Kip trail

Beautiful, dappled sunlight captured on a cool, April evening on the Kip trail at St.


Part of a rainbow in a pink sky in a field, with a tree in the foreground

Beautiful sunsets beautiful place 


Red trilliums in the woods!

Saw a ton of these beautiful red trilliums on Cranberry Lake!


Blue cohosh in flower



 


a yellow and black garter snake sticking it's head up in a bunch of brown dead leaves

Saw the first garter snakes of the year this morning by our beaver pond. 


wood frog floating rear legs out in a murky pond by a dead leaf

Wood frogs are loud and proud in the vernal pools, even though they're still half covered in ice.


green plant with reddish outer leaves just barely emerging from mud

The area around the beaver pond has several spots where skunk cabbage is emerging.


dark color salamander on white cement sidewalk

Doing spring clean up in the yard at the Nicandri Nature Center and found our first salamander of


nice day outside

On a nature walk this afternoon outside of St. Lawrence University.


trees

Squirrel

The lean-to

A great day snowshoeing on the Peavine Swamp Trail. 


I spent Columbus Day with a solo kayak trip up the Oswegatchie River (Fine NY) to High Rock.


The Clarksboro Trail- Claire NY


Baldface is a short but steep (gains over 1000' in a mile) mountain that is a real gem.


It was an uncharacteristically pleasant day for the middle of December in the High Peaks.


A nice easy trek along two Adirondack Ponds- Black and Long.


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