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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Dummerston Town Trail 6.03.12




6.03.12   Numerous Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) plants in a thicket of raspberry bushes make a colorful scene at the base of Prospect Hill.
    The little round buds of One-Flowered Wintergreen (Moneses uniflora) are just starting to open.  True to its name, each 2-inch stem bears only one umbrella-shaped flower. 
 The clouds parted allowing a gleam of sunlight to filter through the trees onto the vernal pool lying dark and still between two steep, treed embankments.  
    Two fronds of an Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron) stand stiffly erect at the base of a rock beside the trail.

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