Scent-sory walk

May 2, 2015 Rowlett Creek Trail

Wanted to test the camera repairs with a photo walk this morning, so I got out to Oak Point before my haircut appointment. The trails are still a bit muddy, the grasses are up near waist high, and the skeeters are ravenous. The smell is amazing, though. Honeysuckle makes itself known first.

Soon the viburnum blends in with the honeysuckle. My IDs are always open for debate, but this shrub is known to me as a magnet for comma, question mark, red admiral, and other butterflies. That it might be the same shrub with the blackhaw berries never occurred to me. See the silver comma mark on the underwing?

All photos Oak Point May 2, 2015

On my return through the shady parts of Bobcat Trail the aroma of onions prevailed. My photos of the wild onion alien spaceships were dreadful.

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