I got a chance to visit Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, near Freeport today. I’m hoping to go there again some day. There are several trails, ranging from the “wheel chair accessible” White Pines Trail to the slightly rugged, winding Harraseeket trail, which runs partway along Harraseeket river, and partway along Casco Bay. Today was one of those Maine Autumn days that threaten to rain, but never quite deliver. I took a lot of photographs.
Sugar Maple eaves already showing mottled red and orange, striking against the bright green of other deciduous trees’ leaves.
Not sure what species of fungus this mushroom is, but there were many of them, large and small.
Lady Slipper with seed-pod.
Partridge Berry
Partridge Berry Mitchella repens L.
Partridge Berry is one of the plants I love. It’s really common in the Eastern U.S. and it’s a favorite food for grouse. It takes two flowers to produce a single berry.
Most of these saplings are less than twenty years old.
Glacial gift
The floor of this forest is rotted vegetation over soil. A foot or three (at most) of soil that’s covering bedrock, or what’s locally called ledge. It’s the same rock you see as outcroppings along the Maine and N.H. and Canadian coastline.
I don’t know what this is. It’s shrub; maybe an Elder species?
A spray of partially turned Sugar Maple leaves, mottled with bright orange.
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