My father takes the Spring off from our painting class. He spends his spare time in the woods, bird-watching and photographing wildflowers. Yesterday we visited the Edmunds Woods in Brighton with my father as guide. This wasn’t a hike. We just walked in the woods and looked at ground near our feet. We saw Mayflower, Squirrel-corn, Bloodroot, Spring Beauty, Mayapples, Trout Lilies, Wild Leeks, Red Berried Elder Bush, White and Red Trillium, Cut-Leaved Toothwort, Fiddle Ferns, Wild Strawberries, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Blue Cohosh and False Solomon’s Seal. Really quite amazing that this was all out there.
What’s left of the woods is surrounded by the expressway, a mosque, the Brighton ballfields and a complex of medical buildings. “It is a unique climax forest composed of Sugar Maple and Beech trees.” I copied that last sentence from my dad’s website on Edmunds Woods.
2 Comments
any pix of the jack-in-the-pulpits?
The jack-in-the-pulpits are not not quite at prime. I’ll grab one when they get there.