Drew has found us a trail to walk that is easy on my knees. It is an ATV trail in Topsham, and it begins at a church parking lot on Roman Rd., off of Foreside Rd. It has a few steep sections, and I successfully navigated one of them without too much knee pain.
We walked 2 miles (which I know is not much, but we had our two Greyhounds with us and they are glacially slow;-) by walking the main trail and an offshoot of the main trail, through the woods over toward Rt. 24. It was so nice to walk a trail that we've never accessed before.
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| Wild Blueberries |
The trail was mowed, and we did not get any ticks on us, which was a nice change from all our other walks this summer. I was happily surprised to see fields of wild blueberries and blackberries. This trail will be so colorful in autumn as the blueberry leaves turn red.
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| Wood Lily (Lilium philadelphicum) |
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Note the mixture of blueberries and other plants
which I cannot identify. |
There were also a smattering of Wood Lilies scattered here and there in the dry open fields/thickets.
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| Meadowsweet (in the rose family) |
We also found Meadowsweet (Spirea alba) along the edge with lots of other plants common to open fields.
