Steven and I went for a little nature walk today. Identified some plants, saw some wildlife, and just enjoyed each others company.
We went to a park in my old childhood neighborhood first, and walked around a bit in the small forest there. Its been so long since I'd last traveled those paths so I'm not sure why I was so surprised to not find it familiar. Almost like I didn't expect things to grow, erode, or be changed by man-made things. It was a bit disappointing because I was expecting a bit of a nolstagic rush to be honest. I did end up actually getting it just a bit later when we came up a slight include to a sort of ridged area. That was what I was remembering and considering my original surprise that things were not the same only a little bit before I was now surprised at how much this little spot was the same.
During this stop, I found and identified some Common Cinquefoil, which I actually sort of recognized! As the other day I found and identified Dwarf Cinquefoil in a different parks wooded are. I'm not going to lie, I did feel pretty proud of myself for that.
The other flower we found at this park was Common Fleabane. I enjoyed this one because originally Steven had asked, "It's just a daisy, isn't it?" Which did actually make me stop and look it up, because yea it kinda at first glance looks like what I'd just consider a daisy.
After this little jaunt, we headed over a much larger forested area that surrounds a couple of ponds. Also in my old stomping ground, it happens to be one of the places I used to always go fishing with my dad. I'm hoping Steven and I get around to getting fishing licenses this year, cause I'd love to go back and catch some sunfish with him.
During this chunk of our journey, and I suppose similarly in the other park, there really wasn't a whole lot of flowers. To be fair it's a qoodland area, not a sunny field so..
But of the wildflowers we did see, I was able to identify these two;
Yellow Avens (Which I might have found d at the first park, know that I'm trying to remember it. But moving photos around in the tumblr app is painful to say the least, so I'm just gonna include this here.)
I was unable to identify this next plant however, because while I was trying to we were hearing some sort of cry. At first I though it was a bird or frog, but then I saw movement in the brush and realized it was a baby deer! I think it was crying out for its mom, because it's definitely the aound we were hearing for a while. I accepted defeat, photographed the mystery flowers and tried to get a quick picture of the deer before we moved on.
Most of the bundles of these flowers had already bloomed and started to fall from the plant, so I think it must have been an early spring bloom? But there was both white and purple versions of it in the same area.
If anyone wants to weigh in, feel free!
I've got more photos to share from this walk, so stick around for that!
