Most areas around lake's west side are pretty much left to nature. This is the area we visit/explore. Members of this expedition were myself, Captain Jack, my wife, her brother (visiting from Texas), and our trusty and extra energetic Scout Dog and explorer in his own right, Plato.
Goldenrods were most plentiful, sometimes large expanses, often sharing habitat with other wilds...

w/ Bidens >



Intermixed w/ grasss -


New England Asters
> w/ Sulphur BF

White aster, about the last wild aster to bloom around here. Maybe called the White Heath Aster
< w/ a green bee and a black one

Boneset


Jewelweed aka Touch me Not -

Redbeckia-

Wood Sorrel-

Rosehips -

Milkweed Seed-

Swamp Milkweed seed pods-

Thistle seed-

Flower for an Hour-

Similar plants are growing in this neck of the woods.

Trees and berries from same expedition -
Red


White


Walnuts
Black Walnut tree >

Honey Locust Tree
< seed pod-ville / seedpod >

Bald Cypress
fruit >

Bent, but not broken


Vistas


< birds take flight

Plato - on the move

Your sky shots are as beautiful as your plant shots - cute dog

Beautiful, J!! Truly beautiful.

That isn't just any cute dog, Vic, that's the amazingly dignified Plato with the wondrous blue eyes that rival the blue of the skies in J's photos.

jmorth, thank you for including me; I enjoyed the walk!!

My most humble apologies dear Plato

Beautiful views!

Love the walk. Loved the clouds and plants

Sorry to be so late to the party, we had a very violent storm last Thursday with winds of 80 to 100 mph.
We had some broken tree branches but no uprooting, some of our neighbors weren't so lucky. We were without power for two days and a lot of clean up. My computer works rather slow now and my husband's is out of commission so things are not normal around here.
Beautiful pictures J, I love those goldenrods and asters.

Beautiful photographs as always, j

Josephine, I am sorry the damage was so bad over there. I got lucky--the broken branches missed the house and landed in the front garden and on the porch; and power was out only for five hours or so. Good thing for us some of the heat has eased, yes? Hope the computers are back to full functioning soon.

Thank you Debra, it is amazing how much we miss the electric power when it is gone.

Glad you are both well. We've had no really powerful 'blow' storms but got inundated with 7" of rain last week (so quoteth the local weatherman quoting the local 'weather watcher'.) Our back yard (a good portion of the garden) was flooded for a while.

Not fun, either. Glad it didn't flood the house.

Right about that. I'm glad we got a new sump pump this summer or the basement may have been in dire straits.

I am glad you escaped without flooding in the house too