| These are some photographs
I took on a single fairly brief walk on the Harlem Valley Rail Trail,
an old railroad right-of-way that has been converted into a lovely paved
walking route through some of the beautiful countryside of the Hudson
River Valley about thirty miles east of Poughkeepsie, New York. We had
just delivered our daughter to Vassar College to begin the next exciting
phase of her education, and we took advantage of the one day we were in
the area when it didn't rain to walk a small section of this trail which
will eventually extend for 46 miles. We will no doubt be making many visits
to Poughkeepsie over the course of the next four years, and I will be
adding other pictures to the page as time goes on. In the meantime, I
confess to being a complete novice when it comes to New York State flora,
although some of these species are familiar even to a California botanist,
but it is risky to go beyond the genus level when identifying flora in
a completely different part of the country. So if anyone can make any
further identifications, please contact me at the following e-mail address:
mmlcharters[at]calflora.net.
And to save anyone confusion, I should point out that the identifications
for the left hand column are below the photos, and for the right hand
column above the photos. |
