A Closer Look

It's mid January and still no snow. Walking in the Dykeman Spring wetland offers the same bland, dreary, brown and gray panorama. But today I discovered that getting down on ground level and looking closer reveals a bit more color and interest.

Asian Bittersweet berries 

Joe Pye Weed seed husks still hang on

A tiny, delicate fungus in the woods in the wetland area

Another of those tiny fungi on the woodland floor

And this male Cardinal perched himself nearby to check out what I was up to

© 2016 by A. Roy Hilbinger