2021-12-14, Massaro Farm, Woodbridge, CT

 On 2021-12-14, I visited Massaro Farm in Woodbridge, CT.  The farm includes a nature trail.  I made an interactive map of the farm.  I put location numbers on the map which I will refer to.  Here's a link to the interactive map: https://arcg.is/1XzPuK0 .  Below is a static screenshot of the interactive map.



6.  The paths that made up the Massaro Farm nature trail went through a wetland with a dense understory.  A great deal of work had been done to create a clear corridor through the understory.



11.  I saw this plant on the blue-circle trail.  I think it's American Holly
(Ilex opaca).



11.  I'm fairly certain the plant is some species of holly.



8.  The little bumps in this rock are garnets.  A sign said the rock that contains the garnets is schist. 




14.  Is this quartzite?  A sign said that the quartzite in Massaro Farm had been brought there by a glacier.



15.  This trail was not blazed but was nicely cleared.



16.  The unblazed, but cleared, trail led to a private house.



7.  The distinctive tight, vertical coils of yellow birch bark.



10.  The blue-circle blazes were a very light blue.



9.  Opened seed pods on a witch-hazel shrub.



9.  These are the bases of witch-hazel flowers.  The yellow tendrils have fallen off.



9.  A branch of the witch-hazel shrub.



12.  The pink-circle blazes were a sort of pale pink.



13.  The trunk of a musclewood shrub.



5.  This was the biggest tree that I noticed on Massaro Farm.  I think it's a red maple.



3.  A nicely built bench at the beginning of the pink-circle trail.



3.  A sign at the beginning of the pink-circle trail.  The QR code on the sign takes you to https://drive.google.com/file/d/10HMvXeJn5RiGAvwFj75zAbcRAPx2UceP/view



2.  The beginning of the pink-circle trail was on the other side of that sweet-smelling pile of leaf mulch.



4.  There were several whimsical constructions scattered around Massaro Farm.  Maybe the constructions are connected with a summer camp that is held on the farm.



1.  A sign at the entrance to the new parking lot that I parked in.
















David Reik

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