Fall Color at Ottawa County Parks November 2020

              Kirk Park

                  Olive Shores Park

It has been a great year for fall color.  These are just two parks I have visited often this year.  Today was 75 degrees here in Michigan, quite warm for November.  Only in the last few days have the leaves really started falling off the trees.  I hope you have had a chance to enjoy being outside.

More Spring Things

Different places, different things....

           Spring Beauty

         Riverside Park - Ottawa County Michigan

     Wild Geranium

                                               Running Strawberry Bush


 Box Turtle
Hofma Perserve  -  Grand Haven Township Park

     Creek somewhere

               Marsh Marigold

 Cedar Apple Rust

 Cedar Apple Rust after a warm rain

Trillium - Nodding Or maybe Drooping?

 Wild Blue Phlox at Riverside Park, Ottawa County

 Flooding at Connor Bayou Park along the Grand River

 Connor Bayou

 There is a trail under all that water.  Connor Bayou Park

 Connor Bayou Park

      Columbine

   Starflower

                               Mayapple

         Lupine

       Squaw Root just coming up.

            Herb Robert


  First blooming Orchid for me this year at Stearns Creek Park, Pink Lady's Slipper


           Wood Sorrel

                        Royal Fern

 

 This beaver spied Mike and I from about 400 feet across the water.  It came fast towards us, then swam back and forth in front of us.  Every so often it would slap its tail and dive under the water.  We watched it for a few minutes, I took some video with my phone, then we left the area. 

 

Today it is 93 degrees!  We went from a nice cool spring, to hot summer days!  Spring  always seems to go fast, it was a good spring.

Take Care!



Aman Park

Aman Park Tuesday May 12, 2020
 
Another beautiful spring day.  Four hours of admiring wildflowers, covering a distance of three miles.