Sunday, July 12, 2020
At last the trails have been opened at Tyler Arboretum. After the derecho (a line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms and sometimes thunderstorms that moves across a great distance and is characterized by damaging winds) hit Delaware County on 6/3/2020, many trees had fallen and blocked the trails. Now they have been cleared.
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| Kent at the gate for Rocky Run Trail |
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We took the left on the trail and would return on the loop
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Oops, did this tree belatedly fall over? (KSS)
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Rocky Run itself (KSS)
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We have discovered that this trail does not connect with the Middletown Township Rocky Run Trail. It appears the Middletown Rocky Run empties into Chester Creek, and the Tyler Arboretum Rocky Run flows into Dismal Run that empties into Ridley Creek.
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| Achillea millefolium/White Yarrow |
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A meadow
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A dead tree that is still standing (KSS)
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There are plenty of fallen trees over Rocky Run (KSS)
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Rocky Run does have a lot of rocks (KSS)
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Some erosion downstream
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This was a Rocky Run crossing
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Rubus sp/Wild Raspberries (KSS)
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Some wild hostas?
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Much of this trail passes through ferns
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| Athyrium filix-femina/Lady Ferns |
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| One of two plank bridges over tiny tributaries (KSS) |
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| Two-foot diameter Laetiporus sulphureus/Chicken of the Woods (KSS) |
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Boulder Pile #1 in Rocky Run
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This Fagus sp/Beech tree seems to be sitting on a rock
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| Boulder Pile #2 (KSS) |
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Kent is next to a larger boulder
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Now Tamiko is next to the boulder (KSS)
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Six-inch tripping hazard in the middle of the path!
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Burled tree trunk (KSS)
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Once again we have to cross Rocky Run
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Spider web (KSS)
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Kent is by Boulder Pile #3, and
we don't know which one is Indian Rock |
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They had to cut out the middle of this tree trunk,
its root ball is to the right in the woods |
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| On the left is another root ball of a downed tree (KSS) |
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| "Tarzan" vines |
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Within the loop is Middle Farm,
surrounded by an electric fence that is
surrounded by another fence to keep us safe |
Back in Tyler Arboretum:
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A bumblebee under the top left "button of the
Cephalanthus occidentalis/Buttonbush (KSS) |
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Domestic hostas
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It is too early for the Aesculus parviflora/
Bottlebrush Buckeye flowers |
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| Hydrangea macrophylla/Lacecap Hydrangea |
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The Edible Garden is really sparse this year! (KSS)
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Blue skies over the Stone House (KSS)
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| Hydrangea quercifolia/Oakleaf Hydrangea |
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