Hidden between all these big things was some swamp milkweed. Pearl crescents however had no problem finding it.
Along the path on the other side of the kiosk was the amazing red of fresh cardinal flower.
Back in the shrub swamp, the more subtle horse balm was starting to bloom.
At the boardwalk in the fen, the recent arrival, climbing hempweed was getting ready to bloom.
I'd left the Glen and had started down the Cary Pines Trail when something bumble-bee-like fled before me dropping something in its wake. I expected to find a dead bumble bee, but it was a good sized beetle. It must have been a bumble bee mimicing robber fly. I've noted them before along here.
Up ahead, a spot on a log caught my eye. It was a grasshopper. That seemed odd in the deep woods.
Along the Wappinger Creek Trail, I was subjected to the familiar challenge and retreat of a northern pearly-eye.
A little beyond was the opportunity to test the new camera on a jewelbox spider in its web. Not quite as awkward as before, but still...
