von Engeln preserve, blueberries, Ithaca Falls

K and I went to the "O. D. von Engeln Preserve at Malloryville", which is a nice park near to us featuring a lot of glacier-created terrain. We got to see a marsh, a fen, a swamp and a bog. There is also a kame and an esker (hopefully you paid attention in Earth Science class, so I won't explain any of that).

Here's a view of a wetland:
wetland

Here is some indian pipe that was growing on the esker:
Indian Pipe Esker

And here are some pitcher plants in the bog:
Pitcher Plants

And here's a plot of where we walked. It was a small area, so we made many cycles:
von engeln path

After that, we got blueberries!
Blueberries

The next day we stopped by Ithaca Falls:
Ithaca Falls

And we even braved nature! It wasn't anywhere near as exciting as the sign led us to expect:
Warning! Nature!
Back to late summer 2007...