Monday, May 18, 2009

Spring is here!



Spring has arrived to the North Country. A little lavender and white wild flower is surrounding the house. It grows in little clumps of about 10-15 blooms, each bloom 1/2" across. There are scores of clumps of these flower all over. Any ideas of their name?

And here's a mushroom I found behind the house. Is that a morel?


I discovered two wonderful easy walks through the nearby forest recently. They are both near the Wilmington Flume on Route 86. The first passes by a beaver dam and then goes along the banks of the West Branch of the AuSable River across from the Hungry Trout Restaurant. There are a whole series of easy trails in this area.

The other is on the other side of the river and downstream from the first. Here you get easy access to the water falls and flume.

Be well my friends!