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wmpe2000: great laurel or rosebay rhododendron
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wmpe2000: Rhododendron maximum
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wmpe2000: the Henry David Thoreau bridge spans 134 feet across the Shepaug river
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wmpe2000: For the first time it occurred to me this afternoon what a piece of wonder a river is – A huge volume of matter ceaselessly rolling through the fields and meadows of this substantial earth making haste from the high places, by stable dwellings of men and
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wmpe2000: red baneberry
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wmpe2000: massive exposed quartz vein
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wmpe2000: quartz mined for paint and abrasives
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wmpe2000: exposed vein of quartz
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wmpe2000: perhaps remnants of the loading dock used for the quartz mine
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wmpe2000: cinnamon fern circle
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wmpe2000: trail narrows near the quartz mine
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wmpe2000: nearing the old quartz mine - trail covered in crushed quartz rock
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wmpe2000: I am glad to see cones forming on the Eastern hemlock
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wmpe2000: forest floor flower
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wmpe2000: trail
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wmpe2000: interesting tree hollow in perhaps a shagbark hickory
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wmpe2000: nursery web spider nest in hay-scented fern
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wmpe2000: winterberry
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wmpe2000: Rosa blanda
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wmpe2000: Rudbeckia hirta
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wmpe2000: the rare Jesup's milk-vetch growing along the river
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wmpe2000: river scene
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wmpe2000: colorful river's edge with mullein in the foreground