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A Walk in the Woods by the Guild Inn: September 2020

Just to the west of the Guild Inn there is a lovely woods. It was full of flowers and even a migrating warbler on this overcast day.

view from top of the Bluffs

Some birds:

Mourning Doves
House Wren
House Wren
Magnolia Warbler

Other life:

Brown-lipped Snail
Japanese Beetles

Some botany:

Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
Amur Maple (Acer maackii)
Starry False Solomon-seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima)
Virgin’s-bower (Clematis virginiana)
Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)
Rattlesnake Root (Prenathes alba)
Choke Cherry (Prunus virginiana)
Choke Cherry (Prunus virginiana)
Field Sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis)
Canada Thistle (Cirsium pratense)
Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora)
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Pale-leaved Sunflower (Helianthus decapetalus)
Pale-leaved Sunflower (Helianthus decapetalus)
Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
Highbush-cranberry (Viburnum opulus)
Panicled Aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
Barber-pole Bulrush (Scirpus microcarpus)
Marginal Fern
Missouri Willow (Salix eriocephala)
Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum)
Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
Red-osier (Cornus sericea)
Bottlebrush Grass (Elymus hystrix)
Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)
Meadow Fescue (Festuca eliator)
Large-leaved Aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
Pinkweed (Persicaria pensylvanica)
Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum)
Arrow-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum urophyllum)
Arrow-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum urophyllum)
Curled Dock (Rumex crispus)
Sensitive Fern
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Cat-tail (Typha)
Winged Euonymus (Euonymus alata)
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)

NATURE POETRY

In its deep cup—grassy, cool—
Sleeps the little roadside pool;
Sleeps the butterfly on the weed,
Sleeps the drifted thistle-seed.
Like a great and blazing gem,
Basks the beetle on the stem.
Up and down the shining rays
Dancing midges weave their maze.              – Charlies G.D. Roberts (1860–1943) 

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