Spring is springing, and we’re delighted that it is! Hepatica is fully open now along the trail; it’s the first wildflower to follow skunk cabbage, which opens up very early in low wet areas. Bird life is more active now with abundant red-winged blackbirds and song sparrows. Mourning cloak butterflies have been flying along the trail during the past few warm days. The photos below (except the fairy houses) are from the trail in the past few days. This coming Wednesday (April 14) morning we will return the fairy houses that we saved from the trail before snow started flying last fall. We’ll leave them at the Dugway Rd trailhead for families and kids of all ages to reinstall wherever they want along the trail. Although the far part of the trail was disrupted last November by widening, the entire 1.9 mile trail from Dugway to Deansboro is in very fine condition now for walking, biking, running, birding, and enjoying the outdoors.
