June 28th - Upper lock gate at Pennyfield lock |
Rosa Virginia |
Tall Meadow Rue beside the trail |
Trumpet Vine flower |
Red clover beside the trail |
Riders approach |
An occasional sight on the trail |
A security boat? |
The bird on the bush |
On the canal bed |
The strange flower |
The crowded trail |
Ground cover beside the trail |
White clover beside the trail |
White clover beside the trail |
Daylily beside the trail |
Whorled Milkwort of Sweet White Clover, I suspect |
Formation of a seed head |
Keeping an eye on us |
Wild grass beside the canal |
Unusual traffic on the trail |
Three leaves |
June 21st - First view of the rtebuilt and rewatered Conococheague Creek Aqueduct |
Approach to the railroad lift bridge |
Railroad lift bridge across the canal |
Route 11 bridge crossing the Potomac river |
Chicory plants |
Thistle |
Thistle |
Horse Nettle |
Moth Mullein |
Lock 44 seen from upstream |
Lock house for lock 44 |
Lock 44 from downstream |
Lock 44 with lock house |
Beyond the watered Williamsport area of the trail |
Into the woods we go |
Protective cover over the trail |
Protective cover over the trail |
Construction on Interstate 81 across the Potomac |
The railroad bridge |
The railroad bridge of the the canal and Potomac river |
The trail |
Fishing on the Potomac |
A culvert under the canal |
Hellgrammite |
The orange touch-me-not |
Bikers on the trail |
US Route 11 bridge |
On the trail near Williamsport |
Queen Anne Lace, I think |
Probably Queen Anne Lace |
White Moth Mullein flowers by the trail |
Lock 44 and its lock house in the backgrounsd |
The Common Mullein beside the trail |
The turtles |
Leaning over the canal at Williamsport |
Yellow Moth Mullein by the trail |
Dueling turtles? |
Deptford Pink flowers |
The Conococheague Creek Aqueduct |
Chicory flowers by the trail |
Bridges of Williamsport, MD |
The spider |
June 2020 - At the 100 mile marker |
At the 100 mile marker |
At the 100 mile marker |
Aproaching the Conococheague Creek Aqueduct from the north |
The Cushwa Basin |
The Conococheague creek meets the Potomac river |
Potomac and US Route 11 bridge from Conocoheague Creek Aqueduct |
Railroad lift bridge at Williamsport |
The Concoccheague Creek Aqueduct |
The Concoccheague Creek Aqueduct |
Rebuilt wall of the Conococheague Creek Aqueduct |
Rebuilt wall of the Conococheague Creek Aqueduct |
The watered section of the canal seen from the aqueduct |
Rebuilt and rewatered Conococheague Creek Aqueduct |
Rebuilt and rewatered Conococheague Creek Aqueduct |
June 14th - Monocacy Aqueduct |
The Potomacacy in the early morn |
Indian Flats Hiker/Biker campsite |
Early morning light on the trail |
A touch-me-not flower |
One of the towering Sycamore trees by the trail |
Blackberries |
Pawpaw |
The mushroom beside the trail |
Pawpaw trees surround the trail |
Grass by the trail |
All by itself in the Monocacy river |
June 7th - On the trail from Sycamore Landing |
Tall grass by the side of the trail |
The dragonfly |
Light through the trees |
The damselfly |
The butterfly |
Overgrown path to nowhere beside the canal |
The boat on the river |
The dragonfly |
Cabbage White butterfly |
Mock or wild strawberry |
A Skipper butterfly, I think |
The turtle |
Wild flowers by the trail |