March 28th - Pennyfield lock in the light rain |
In the rain at Pennyfield Lock |
The rain at Pennyfield Lock |
The Great Blue Heron |
The Mallard and the reflections in the canal |
Racemes - A sign of Spring |
Cutleaf Tootwort |
Wet trail |
Mushrooms |
The duck in the middle of the river |
Music in the morning |
Guessing this is a Ragwort of some kind |
The Carolina Wren |
The Great Blue Heron on the bridge |
Dutchman's Breeches |
What a hoot! |
The barred owl |
Swains Lock and lock house |
Battling geese! |
The Canada Goose |
At the bypass flume outlet of Swains Lock |
Lock house for Swains Lock |
The hawk |
Wood Ducks |
The Northern Cardinal |
Gill Over The Ground |
The deer beside the canal |
The egret - ready to fly off |
The egret in flight |
Nailed the landing! |
The great blue heron |
The great blue heron |
The great blue heron |
The Spring growth |
The Northern Cardinal |
March 21st - Parking lot at Dargen Bend before sunrise |
Boat ramp at Dargan Bend |
West Virginia across the river in the sunlight |
The detour |
The stream connects to the river |
Shadows on the trail in the early morn |
Limestone kilns |
Limestone used to extracted from this "cave" |
A source for the limestone for the kilns |
The trail in the morning light |
Sycamore trees on the West Virginia shore |
Lock 37 and lock house |
At loch 37 |
The Potomac river near Dargan Bend |
The Potomac river near Dargan Bend |
English Ivy (I think) covers the tree trunks |
English Ivy covers a tree completely |
Amidst the English Ivy |
Stopped |
Bloodroot |
Bloodroot |
Bloodroot |
Turning back |
The Pileated Woodpecker |
Fungus |
The Carolina Wren |
Leaves that stayed on through winter |
The nest |
Almost golden |
Lock house for lock 37 |
The Mourning Doves |
Over the water |
Across the river |
The river near the end of winter |
New Spring growth beside the trail |
The bikers |
Back to the detour |
March 14th - Could this be a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker? |
Signs of Spring beside the trail |
Bikers on the trail |
An Eastern Bluebird, I think! |
The red-belied woodpecker |
The Downy woodpecker |
The trail |
The trail |
The old canal bed with water |
The Mallards |
Hanging out! |
The Nuthatch |
White-throated sparrow |
Building a new bridge over Lock 25 |
The alien! |
Campsite facility |
Turtles earlier in the season than expected |
Amazing growth |
Twisted forms |
Tentacles! |
The Black Rat Snake |
The Black Rat Snake |
The Black Rat Snake |
Spring growth |
March 7th - Near White's Ferry - The Cardinal through the branches |
Near White's Ferry |
Early morning on the trail near White's Ferry |
A hawk enjoying the early morning sun |
Going somewhere |
Mergansers |
Fallen Spring growth |
Reflections in the river |
A section of the canal that actually has water these days |
The winding trail |
The tree |
Sycamore tree across the river |
Ice |
Towers of the power plat at Dickerson |
On the trail |
The trail near White's Ferry |
Pattern of ice |
The reach of the Sycamore |
Ice |
The winter view |
Trees towering over the trail |
Sycamore tree over the trail |
Sunny trails |
The Sycamore tree |
Sycamores |
Sycamore trees |
Virginia |
Sycamore trees on the Virginia shoreline |
Mergansers on the river |
Sign of spring |
White's Ferry |
White's Ferry |