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First Day

Spring Equinox

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Thank You for exploring with me the South Rim trail of Taughannock Falls State Park on this first day of Spring 2023.

Photographs with video from this walk, with nature sounds and music in 4K HD
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Here, before the epynmous creek flows over the falls, glacial outflow carved this deep canyon through relatively soft sedimentary rock.
Distant Lake View
The place for rest and wonder
Looking into the gorge
South Rim view of falls
Taughannock creek below the falls
Red Barn on Gorge Road, off South Rim rial.
Perched on the north rim of the gorge, the Visitor Center for the Falls Overlook is visible before trees leaf out.
On spring’s first day Taughannock Creek is full beneath the old railroad bridge, now a connector between South and North Rim Trails.
The creek here plunges into the chasm below a former railroad bridge.
Gorge from Railroad Bridge Walkway

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Anniversary Wildflower, aconite

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Our Winter Aconite started blooming around Valentines Day, February 14, 2023.

The following photograph is from the Apple IPhone 14 ProMax, raw format and perfected on the phone. The rest are from the Canon 5D Mark IV with the lens EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USB.

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As a spring ehemeral plant, its life cycle exploits the deciduous woodland canopy, flowering at the time of maximum sunlight reaching the forest floor, then completely dying back to its underground tuber after flowering.

All parts of the plant are poisonous when consumed by humans and other mammals because it contains cardiac glycosides.

The species name Eranthis hyemalis proclaims the early nature of its flowering both in the genus, “Eranthis” – “spring flower”, and species, “hyemalis” – winter flowering. The genus encompasses eight species, all early flowering winter aconite.

Reference: Wikipedia “Eranthis hyemalis” and “Eranthis.”

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