auntie | July 9, 2015
7.5 miles; north stonington, ct i am lucky in that i have four avalonia land conservancy properties and a nature conservancy property that i can walk to from my house. today i decided to visit erisman woods, babcock ridge, and the henne preserve all in a row. erisman and babcock share a border and a trail, and […]
auntie | July 7, 2015
6.5 miles; lyme, ct well i finally got back here, and boy howdie, am i glad i did. i was last here in october of last year, and i didn’t get to see much. yesterday i had the time to visit as long as i wanted. lyme preserves is exactly that—a series of small land trust […]
auntie | June 24, 2015
1.5 miles; stonington, ct this was a short but fun walk with a friend on this avalonia property. lots to look at including a gorgeous little brook, interesting rock formations, and wildflowers. i had hoped to visit this property last february on snowshoes, but the parking lot looked pretty dicey to me, and i didn’t […]
auntie | June 13, 2015
8.4 miles; killingly, ct and foster, ri another leg down! there was only about a mile and a half of this that was in the woods; the rest was all road walking. but they were very pretty, very scenic country roads for the most part, so it wasn’t too bad. we started from pond road […]
auntie | May 27, 2015
4 miles; voluntown, ct i did a quick visit today to my local section of the narragansett trail. i had an appointment right afterward, so i had to hustle, but it was still a lovely day to be in the woods. there’s water flowing over the dam at green fall pond, though not a lot, […]
auntie | May 21, 2015
this is a combined nature conservancy/avalonia land trust property in north stonington, and is the site of a fairly rare atlantic white cedar swamp. luckily, it’s not entirely swamp; there’s an old farm road that eventually peters out before it gets swampy. i have driven by the entrance to bell cedar swamp for, quite literally, […]
