Today was a beautiful sunny, hot and humid day. We decided to walk a loop in the Greenbelt that is also close to home. We parked our car at P2. We walked the red path to the east to point A, then the yellow path north all the way to P1 at Shirley Bay and then back via point F, E, C and B to the parking lot.
The mosquitoes were very happy that we came along and kept us moving on sometimes faster than I wanted. I even skipped a number of photo spots since it's supposed to be fun out there and not torture. A few times I almost felt like I'm a "Schuhplattler" (If you have no I idea what I'm talking about, have a look at this video example of
Austrian Schuhplattler Group called "Voigasplattler").
Along the way we saw some curious insects, a few birds (I guess there are tons in the bushes but it looks like that they kept a low profile during the heat of the day) and there were tons of beautiful wildflowers, shrubs and grasses in a wide spectrum of colors and a teeny tiny wood frog.
Viper's Bugloss or Blueweed - Echium vulgare
Daisies
Birdfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus
Creeping Bellflower - Campanula rapunculoides
Cow Vetch - Vicia cracca
Baby Wood Frog - Lithobates sylvaticus
Milkweed - Asclepias syriaca
Greenbelt pathway (yellow path on the map)
Wildflowers everywhere.
Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannus
Crown Vetch - Coronilla varia
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura
Red Milkweed Beetle - Tetraopes tetrophthalmus
Hubby found the little guy hitchhiking on my back. Within 5 seconds,
I went from "aaahhh" to "ohhh he's so cuuute". :)
Ninebark - Physocarpus opulifolius
That was quite a surprise obstacle along the way. :)
Mossy Stonecrop - Sedum acre
All in all, a great walk!
