When we started on our walk the temperature was 17 degrees Fahrenheit. Brr! We tried to get to Connor Bayou but it is marshland all around it, with cattails and tall grasses.
We walked to the east, the park goes east here quite a ways but no trails and you are between houses and the marsh. So we turned back to the west and walked the 7/10's of a mile to the other end of the property. We saw a Pileated Woodpecker along the way.
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| The thin white bit of snow is Connor Bayou. |
Years ago you could drive back through this property to a boat launch on "Little Robinson". We parked at the road and walked through the woods to the old boat launch, about a half mile. The sky was a vivid blue with some puffy white clouds. We walked another quarter mile to the area of an old ditch.
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| Winterberry also known as Michigan Holly |
Connor Bayou was interesting, tons of American Bladdernut with seedpods that rattle! Later, being on the other side of Little Robinson was strange. The old ditch is the remnant of a 35-foot wide channel dug in 1883 during a huge log jam on the Grand River. Google it, then read more about it. To think we used to go fishing there! Look at that blue sky, wow. M
ReplyDeleteI guess I didn't remember all that about the ditch. Probably because I'm so much younger! :)
ReplyDeleteI'll go Google log jam 1883.
Mary Jo recalled fishing in the ditch, the fish would come in when the water was high and were trapped there.
"Little Robinson" is what Sugar said fisherman call that body of water. On Bing Maps it just says Stearns Bayou.
I should add the Winterberry we identified maybe I'll do that.
Thanks!
The Winterberry is a nice addition! Wintertime is not all grays and browns, which has beauty in itself. You just have to go see! M
ReplyDeleteOoh what pretty blue sky and lovely red Michigan Holly!
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