Lubbe (Gilbert And Alma Nentrup) Nature Preserve Dearborn Co Indiana Spring 2023

 Lubbe Nature Preserve Old Growth

Beech

Hickory

Red Oak

Tulip

Access at gate at southern end of preserve on Grelle Rd

South Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

 

 South Manitou Island Old Growth

Made it to South Manitou Island then weather kept us for a few days

 

 Cedars

 

Cedars

Storm Cloud Brewing Company Frankfort Michigan

Glad to enjoy Birdwalker Blonde after dodging storms to get back

Ginn Woods Nature Preserve Delaware Co. Indiana Fall 2022

 Ginn Woods is Indiana's newest state nature preserve.

Dead Fall Hickory

White Oak

Red Oak

Ginn Woods Nature Preserve Delaware Co. Indiana

 

Ginn Woods is Indiana's newest state nature preserve. 

Diseased Ash Tree

Maple Tree

Maple Tree

Shrader-Weaver Nature Preserve Fayette Co. Indiana

 

One of the most fascinating places in all of Southern Indiana. It has Seep Spring Skunk Cabbage Swamp, remnant Old Growth Forest and Indigenous Wild Flowers.

Dead Oak

Green Ash

Black Walnut

 

Meltzer Woods Nature Preserve Shelby Co Indiana

 

Right off I74 just before Shelbyville In going west

Oak Chinkapin

Oak Tulip

https://www.facebook.com/treecitybrewery/

great little tap room very good beers about 20 miles East of Metzler Woods in Greensburg Indiana off I74

Hayes Regional Arboretum

 Hayes Regional Arboretum contains 3% of Indiana's Old Growth Forests. The remnant old growth is located north of the nature center between Elk and Hayes Arboretum roads facing the active railroad tracks.The hills with the old growth are some kind of terminal moraine or some other kind of glacial water course silt.

Dead Beech Sycamore Blackcherry

https://www.5archbrewing.com/

Brewery Resturaunt featuring a bar from the World Fair Chicago 1893

Located a few miles West of Hayes Arboretum on RT 40

I enjoyed a tasty Scotch Ale barley pop for $5