Our annual meeting will be on Friday, May 2
at Mertensia Lodge in Farmington, NY.
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FRIDAY,
May 2: Mertensia Park wanders, Annual meeting and potluck meal.
1438
Mertensia Road, Farmington, NY 14425
We have the Mertensia Lodge reserved from
8 AM – 10 PM. Our potluck meal will begin at 6 PM with a brief annual meeting afterwards.
People are asked to bring a dish to pass and place settings for each
person in your group. The lodge kitchen has an oven/stove, fridge, microwave and sink. You are asked to bring serving utensils for your dish to share. We will have decaf coffee and a selection of teas.
You are most welcome to walk along Mud
Creek to enjoy the Mertensia Bluebells and other spring flowers before the
meeting. Members are
encouraged to bring “items to share” before or after the meal (photos, poems,
stories, nature discoveries, music, books, etc).
Laura plans to bring the plein air materials by 4 PM for anyone who would like to capture the bluebells with paint on paper.
The weather was mostly delightful. Folks enjoyed the mertensia and other spring ephemerals during the day then 26 gathered in Mertensia Lodge for a delicious pot luck meal and annual meeting.
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| Mertensia Lodge |
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| Bluebells were blooming! |
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| violets |
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| colts foot |
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| yellow trout lilies |
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| thimble weed |
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| jack in pulpit |
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| solomon seal and JIP |
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| false solomon seal |
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| early meadow rue |
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| may apples |
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| free for the taking |
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| Vasculum display |
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| sign in |
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| plein air supplies |
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| this is where we dug out the lesser celandine |
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| blood root |
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| white trout lily |
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| again, where we removed lesser celandine |
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| Uh oh...found these two patches only in the park section |
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| dug them out and placed them in the trash can |
Species recorded: bluebells/mertensia,
white and yellow trout lilies, bloodroot leaves, jack in the pulpits, Virginia
waterleaf, wild geranium, barren strawberries, wild strawberries, hooked
buttercups, woodland buttercup, orange fruited horse gentian, violets,
coltsfoot, Solomon seal, early meadow rue, may apples, Virginia waterleaf,
Jeffersonian twinleaf (west side of Mud Creek)
