A day in Great Meadows

I hadn’t been back to the Boston area, where I used to live, for more than seven years, but the opportunity to join a wildflower walk in Concord’s Great Meadows took me there last weekend. The walks are led every month by local naturalist and photographer Cherrie Corey, and August struck me as the last month in the year when wildflowers might be really plentiful.

Whether or not that’s so, it wasn’t too late to see the showy white and pink blooms of the swamp rose mallow, the branched spires of the blue vervain, the oddly named mad dog skullcap, and the pretty but aggressive purple loosestrife and American lotus. Not to mention a very mellow rabbit (no telephoto required).

More of my photos are here, but for some really good shots from the same day visit Larry Warfield’s Great Meadows blog. Cherrie and I can be seen pointing at something in the second photo.