Oliver Mill Park, Part 2

The day I went was partly cloudy and very humid.  It even started to drizzle a little when I left.  

This is the first time I've ever seen shiny green dragonflies with jet black wings and most of the time I spent in the park was following them around till I finally got a good photo.

 Joe Pye weed and cattails.

Joe Pye weed

That's one more thing crossed off the local bucket list!

Oliver Mill Park

Every now and then a friend of mine will post pictures of her visits to Oliver Mill Park in Middleborough, and I'd been saying, 'I really need to get up there one of these days' and in July,  I finally went.  It's a very small park, yet so picturesque that I ended up shooting close to 80 photos.  Here's Part 1:

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I've been told this is chickory.

The stream is a herring run, which is why it's stepped with little waterfalls.