Shaw Nature Reserve (2)
/Continuing the images from our hike at Shaw Nature Reserve…
At the Brush Creek Trail’s crossing of its namesake creek – the creek was dry. I took pictures from both directions from the bridge. In one direction the banks have vegetation all the way down to the edge of where the water would flow. In the other direction there is undercutting of the bank and some areas where vegetation has lost its hold. I wonder how long the tree growing above the undercut will survive.
Native hibiscuses were still blooming. I realized that I like to photograph the buds and unfurling flowers rather than the open flowers!
There were orange and yellow flowered jewel-weed a little different from the ones I saw in Maryland that were usually solid orange.
There were some signs of fall already – sumac with some red leaves, red poison ivy?, and a tree in the forest that stood out with its red foliage.
Enjoy the best of the rest!
When we returned to the car, I realized that it had acquired a coating of fine white dust on our drive around the (white gravel) loop…and it contrasted with the redder dust from Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge! I put my camera away and we headed over to the Fall Wildflower Market.
