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It's been too long since I've posted an urban nature post. Sorry about that. Partly it's because we have so many pictures taken (during our 2 weeks with automobile) that we haven't resized them all for blog use. Here's the first part of a photo-heavy post about Franklin Park in Boston. We took so many pictures that it's only right that I divide this into at least two posts.

Franklin Park is yet another part of the Emerald Necklace, Olmsted's brilliant landscape design that winds its way through Boston. Franklin Park, a sprawling greenspace containing a golf course and a zoo, is the southern end of the Necklace spreading from Jamaica Plain down to Mattapan.


We parked (alas, automobile is the easiest way to get there) along a maintenance/service road next to a pond.







Floating on the pond was a dense growth of duckweed (Family Lemnaceae), tiny round leaves which together give the impression of scum.





Many of Olmsted's Boston parks are characterized by handsome stone bridges made from the local stone: Roxbury Puddingstone, a variety of conglomerate found only here.







These white plants are Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora). They are fascinating enough to warrant their own post (which I did last year, but I will reprise later). We are seeing an unusually large amount of these this year.



There are signs in the park that you are in the city, like this well-mown and paved pathway.



Not to mention...



Next: more unexpected objects plus the mushrooms, weeds, and insects you've come to expect from me.

Magoo! You've done it again!

Date: 2005-07-24 09:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brush-rat.livejournal.com
Once again you've found a beautiful place that I've probably passed within a mile of without seeing. Nice photos as always. That's duckweed, eh. I'm sure I've seen it before and assumed it was scum. Lord how I miss the green already. Not missing the tick checks, though.

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