A Winter Hike at Mt. Pleasant (2)
/Continuing my outdoors photography at Howard Country Conservancy’s Mt. Pleasant….
The nature center has a lot of windows and they have been upgraded to make them more visible to birds…prevent bird strikes. The upgrade enhanced the place as a nature center – featuring an owl, a curled up fox, cattails, and milkweed with a Monarch butterfly.
I did a close of two butterfly images on the glass (tiger swallowtail and monarch).
And then a macro shot to show the small holes.
While I had the macro lens on my phone – I took pictures of some of the rock façade of the nature center.
I’d put the lens back in my pocket before I walked over to the area near the Honors garden for some more close ups: an old pump with rusting pins holding the handle in place and the lichen growing on a split rail fence nearby.
On the way back to the car, I put the macro lens back on my phone and took pictures of the witch hazel blooming beside the drive to the old farmhouse. The ribbon-like petals are unusual and last a long time. It might be my favorite tree at Mt. Pleasant!
Overall – the two photographic highpoints of my time at Mt. Pleasant were the skunk cabbage and witch hazel!
