I’m starting Six on Saturday, with a view from my bike on the Glassboro-Williamstown Bike Trail.
The trail has several swampy areas. They are lovely and fairylike, with their carpet of duckweed. This photograph is my entry in the Cosmic Challenge—Waterways. Wild Roses border the swamp and trail.
Cinnamon Ferns grow lushly in the woods, and some are beginning to send up their center spike.
Wild asters are delicate in appearance but durable wildflowers.
Beautiful Mountain Laurel in full bloom.
The best photo of the day and the best scent was the honeysuckle. A bumbling bee was drinking the nectar as we passed by.
The beautiful honeysuckle and the bumblebee are my choices for Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge. I just noticed while looking closer that I also photographed two small ants on the honeysuckle leaves, unbeknownst to me at the time.
Nice photos, thanks for sharing
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Thanks for taking a look. 🙂
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I do love your photos
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Thanks so much!
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Mountain laurel and honeysuckle have reached their peak here.
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We were lucky to catch the mountain laurel before the petals begin to fade. It was so lovely. The honeysuckle, oh my, as we rode the bikes, we would suddenly be surrounded by the lovely fragrance. You can’t help but exclaim, “Oh, the honeysuckle…”
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I smelled the honeysuckle this year before I saw it.
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This looks to be a wonderful trail, with unspoilt wildflowers… Lots to see when we take the time to stop and really LOOK… Lots of bumble bees on my climbing hydrangea and Rhododendron bush.. In fact I am sat watching the bees now buzz around it.. ❤ xx Thank you for sharing your bike ride trail ride x ❤ xx ❤
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I could watch bumble and honeybees all day. I am also a bit obsessed with photographing them.
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Likewise… I love the bees in our garden.. xx without them our fruit trees and raspberry bushes and so much more would not flourish.. ❤ … ❤
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These are wonderful, they remind me a lot of the Tarka Trail, the cycle network in along the Devon coast.
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Thanks so much, I will have to look up that trail.
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https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/tarka-trail/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3tCyBhDBARIsAEY0XNlafasBc4v5cQ_kR2tqrpqHHVnFNnqdxnBJFmltlpv14YMud1YqCSwaAok2EALw_wcB
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Thank you so much. The trail we rode is also along an old railway. You can still see some of the ties overgrown now by the woods and vines. It is very peaceful. I would love to visit England one day.
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Well here’s a trip I took along it a few years ago, just in case you don’t make it over here for a while. ;~}
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Beautiful picture.
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Thanks so much.
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