We parked at Our Lady's Academy, a Catholic school on Trapelo Road. They have a HUGE empty parking lot. A while back someone told me that the school had overpaved, infringing on city property or public land, so its ok to park there to do a hike. I stuck a Western Greenway map on my dashboard just in case anyone was wondering what we were doing there.
We already hiked the Chesterbrook Corridor from the Y north to Shady's Pond. So today we parked at Our Lady and walked south towards Shady's Pond. We also took a trail spur that led us to Waltham's Northeast Elementary School, another place you could park to do some hiking on the Western Greenway.
This particular area (below) she said felt like a museum model of nature. It did have the feeling of a room, I'll give her that.
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| Diorama |
Note the golden fruit on false solomon's seal.
http://identifythatplant.com/false-and-true-solomons-seal/
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| Maianthemum racemosum |
Are lichen more likely to grow on dead tree trunks than live tree trunks? They do like growing on rocks, which are not alive...
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| Fluorescent lichen |
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