Friday, May 27, 2011

May showers bring...

...lots of flowers!  The weather cooperated long enough for us to get a ride on the Butler-Freeport Trail last weekend.  The Butler-Freeport is a great trail for seeing unusal wildflowers, especially at the Freeport end.  Even with an abundance of invasive Japanese knotweed, there was a great variety of flowers, and several that I'd never seen before.  New finds included:



Bugle

Honewort

Wood betony

Red campion

One down side to the ride - the middle section of the trail is torn up by installation of a sewer line.  The trail is still quite passable on a hybrid bike, but rougher than ususal and muddy in places.