Outdoor Source Magazine

Now that spring is here and I have a yearning to get out and be in nature, I thought it was finally time to put up the series of photos that I took back in the fall. As a reminder, I went out to the Muttontown Preserve for 4 or 5 weekends spanning from September to November. There’s a couple of different pieces of nature out there. First is a rolling meadow that’s been taken over by wildflowers. The second is a forest featuring several different types of hardwoods and pines. I can only imaging that this is what all of Long Island used to look like before the hordes from NYC turned into millions of people with a million cars. Anyway……

The first shot below was taken walking through forested section of the park in mid to late September. Off on the right side are the first signs of fall with the changing of the leaves.

Next up I wanted to illustrate a couple of things out in the meadow. First, I wanted to illustrate that there’s more to fall colors up in the northeast than just the crimson, orange and yellows from the hardwoods up in New Hampshire and Vermont. There’s beautiful albeit small colors in flowers spreading across the meadows. Most people equate flowers with April and May, but wild flowers can appear all year as the next 3 shots illustrate.

Next we follow this up with a closeup of tiny white flower that reminds me of the distance back to the spring and the daisies that carpet the garden in front of my house.

Finally, I got down into the weeds to show a wall of flowers - both purple and yellow. Although they are beautiful, the yellows are a reminder to allergy sufferers to pack the Claritin before heading out — ragweed.

Stay tuned, I’ve got October and November to come yet. I’ll be posting those in the next couple of days. I’ll be back to publishing regularly again as my latest gig might be coming to an end.