Exploring a new place - and revisiting

Some of you may recall an early July 2013 blog I made:

Jerry Jelinek Web Blog - Exploring a New Place

Well here is a good reason to revisit places many times in the year and year after year.   I revsited Springfield Bog to get a feel for its summer dress.   Boy was it impressive.

The huge meadow really has its most gorgeous display right now.   Acres upon acres of wild flowers.

As you can see, the area is the same, but the look and feel is completely different. Different plants come and go in the year and without revisiting, you would never seen the impressive changes. 

You can see all of my Springfield Bog images at my photography web site:
Jerry Jelinek Photography

Exploring a new place

One of the exciting parts of nature photography is discovering a new place to photograph.  That is part of the incentive for people to travel to far and distant locations to explore a new place with a camera.

Sometimes we don't have to travel far to discover these new areas.    The Metro Parks of Summit County (based around Akron Ohio) acquired this former farm property in 2011 and is transforming it into a prairie  landscape.    You can read more about this at the Metro Parks web site:  Springfield Bog

There is a wide variety of birds and wild flowers that are slowly reclaiming the land.  The colorful picture above is mainly garden coreopsis and clover with a bit of daisy fleabane mixed in.

With the passing of years to come, it will be fascinating to see how this area changes back into a more native type of vegetation.  

The other variety of coreopsis that is in bloom right now is lance leaved coreopsis.   They make for a colorful yellow amongst the grasses and other plants in the area.

There is a loop hiking trail around the property that is worth walking early in the morning with dew and fog coming off the lush prairie plants.