We’re back in Maine and would like to share with you a few images from several refreshing morning walks that I took this week in Maryland’s Cabin John Regional Park, just to the north of Washington, D.C. The Park is now in dense, full leaf, unlike most of our Maine woods, which are just starting to leaf-out.
The Park is dominated by tall oaks and tulip poplar trees that emerge from a thick understory of smaller native and foreign trees and bushes. (There even are Chinese Princess trees [Paulownia tomentosa] in there.)
Cabin John Creek meanders slowly through the Park’s lush greenery. The 10.9-mile-long Creek is a Potomac River tributary that flows southward from Rockville, Maryland, to a culvert under the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which allows the Creek to empty into the famous River.
Winding, switch-back trails run along the ridges above the Creek, providing hikers and trail bikers a view of the Creek and a good workout. May apples and Christmas ferns grow in profusion beside the trails
(Images taken in Cabin John, Maryland, on May 4, 5, and 8, 2023.)