An abandoned railroad bridge covered with grafitti inside the Monkey Run Natural Area

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I think of loosestrife being a little more strident than this but I think this is still some kind of 𝐿𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑢𝑚 in the upper waters of Fall Creek

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Flowering Rush (𝐵𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑢𝑠 𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠) by the creek deep in the Monkey Run Natural Area

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𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 flowers down by the creek in Monkey Run: back then I was hiking up the creek with two cameras in my backpack, one with the the 70-200mm lens I took this with and the 9mm wide angle

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If Letchworth State Park is the Grand Canyon of New York, Monkey Run is the Letchworth State Park of Tompkins County -- here's a spot you can only get to if you're willing to walk the creek in water shoes

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One of the Varna Cliffs deep inside Monkey Run Natural Area

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Ragged Heliopsis Flowers In the Forest Around Monkey Run

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Not all flowers are colorful -- here are the flowers of a sedge deep in the Monkey Run Natural Area

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Closer to home here are the kind of 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 flowers you find up and down the creek in Monkey Run; I think every natural area in Tompkins has its own characteristic 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠.

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Forget-me-nots on the forest floor in Monkey Run

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