Celebrate National Trails Day
along the Ontario Pathways trail in Stanley, NY
We will meet at the Stanley parking lot at 10 AM on Saturday, June 7th and walk a mile west to the bridge over Flint Creek. Upon our return to the Stanley parking lot you may like a short stroll north to enjoy the third installment of the Ontario County Arts Council Ontario Pathways Artwork.
The sky was hazy with Canada wildfire smoke but it was not raining and we had bug repellent and insect netting to keep us from being eaten. There were four Botanical members and four Pathways members with two more who belong to both, making ten total and Violet the pup. Tim suggested we walk "quickly" to the Great Stanley Bridge and take our time to botanize on the return. Interestingly, there was a lot of pale swallow wort in bloom, but I took no photos of the dreaded invasive.
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| Ontario Pathways parking lot where the trail heads northwest and northeast |
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| cottonwood tree |
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| Tim points out the only rail that still exists along the Ontario Pathways |
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| White Campion |
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| We saw several butterflies |
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| bloodroot past bloom |
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| racoon track |
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| mugwort - invasive |
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| crownvetch |
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| mullein |
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| Christmas fern |
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| native yarrow along side Sweet William (garden escapee) |
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| Great Stanley Bridge is 362 feet in length |
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| Tiger moth caterpillar on Dame's Rocket |
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| deadly nightshade growing along the bridge edge |
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| "created" ties and original ties used to restore the train bridge |
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| The bridge is normally 44 feet above Flint Creek. This day probably 41 feet due to rise of creek. |
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| Our National Trails Day walkers |
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| Saint John's wort? |
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| Avens |
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| cinquefoil |
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| invasive honeysuckle |
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| This showed up as "common toad flax" on an app |
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| floras on the ground |
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| hawkweed |
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| many damselflies |
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| fleabane |
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| lots of "introduced" dame's rocket. This has four petals. Phlox has five petals. |
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| very happy/healthy native poison ivy with berries growing up a tree |
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| Virginia Waterleaf |
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| burdock etc.. |
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| chokecherry |
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| clover and mouse ear chickweed |
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| Goatsbeard |
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| acrobatic caterpillar |
