David Reik, Photo Blog

 On 2021-1-22, I visited the Summer Hill Preserve in Madison, CT.  I made an interactive map on which I'll put location numbers that I will refer to.  Below is a static screenshot of the interactive map. Here is a link to the interactive map:  https://arcg.is/0j80qK                1.  An off-road Madison Land Conservation Trust parking lot that I parked in.  The lot could hold about six cars. 2.  I saw hundreds of plants like this, the tallest about eight feet high, most about two or three feet high.  I think this American holly, Ilex opaca. 2. 2. 2. 2. 3.  I am not sure what happens with this ford on rocks when there is a lot of water.  Some would say that there should more water between the rocks to let water pass through.  Crossing was easy on 2021-1-22. 3.  A view from the ford of two beaver dams. 4.  Looking easterly into Regional Water Authority property. 5.  Symploc...

 On 2021-1-20 and 2021-1-22, I visited the upper Neck River area in Madison, CT.  I made an interactive on which I put location numbers that I will refer to below.  Here's a link to the interactive map:  https://arcg.is/10efiL   Below is a static screenshot of the interactive map. 1.  Where I parked on a fairly quiet street, Princess Drive. The 2021-1-20 pictures. 2. This was a Madison Land Conservation Trust preserve.  Most of the trails, like the one that this rock shelf was on, were blazed blue. 3.  This is a tributary to the Neck River. 4.  The Neck River is visible below from this point on an orange-blazed trail. 5.  Another tributary to the Neck River. 6.  The Madison Land Conservation Trust posts maps at many points in their preserves.  Supposedly, I was at point 19C, but the actual configuration of trails near here didn't correspond with what was displayed on the map. 7.  I followed a blue-blazed trail into another...

 On 2021-1-17,  I went back to the Lowry Woods area in Madison, CT.  I also attempted to find the Indigo Woods Trail.  I made an interactive map of my explorations on which I put location numbers that I will refer to.  Below is a static screenshot of the interactive map. Here's a link to the interactive map:  https://arcg.is/1KWr90  . 1.  I  parked on a wood-chip-covered pull-off on the west side of Warpas Road. I made my way southerly on trails that were mostly blue-blazed that traveled through a preserve owned by Madison Land Conservation Trust that is labelled "Lowry Woods on the Madison Land Conservation Trust's interactive trail map.  For reasons that are unclear to me, the Lowry Woods trails don't appear on the Madison Land Conservation Trust's .pdf maps, although an approximation of the Lowry Woods trails appear on the Madison Land Conservation Trust interactive trail map, available at  https://mlct.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webap...