Greenway Fall Flowers

Sometimes I think there are nearly as many flowers blooming in the Fall as in the Spring, at least along the greenways. A couple of shots from my morning bike trips on Stones River and Shelby Bottoms Greenways:

Greenway Cows

Cows Along the Stones River Greenway

This morning on the Stones River Greenway

The old farm has been bought by Nashville for a city park

but I guess the cows have squatter rights for awhile!

Passionflower & Queen Anne's Lace

From my Greenway bike ride today:

Queen Anne's Lace

Passionflower

The Official State Wildflower of Tennessee

While Iris is the Official Flower

I almost missed the Passionflower which was mostly under the leaves along the trail beside Ravenwood. Glad I saw it because it is one of my favorite wildflowers and only blooms for a week or two in early summer or late spring. It is also called Maypops, Passion Vine and Apricot Vine. How wonderful to have a greenway with all these beautiful wildflowers in every season! 

Wildflowers on the Greenways

All but three of these photos were made today as I biked along both the Stones River Greenway and the Shelby Bottoms Greenway. They are just one of many reasons I enjoy biking the greenways. Plus today I again saw an Indigo Bunting, just not a very good photo yet of this beautiful bird that doesn't stay still long.

The first of Spring - Wood Sorrel in front of Redbuds

And yes this is the only one that was shared earlier.

But has to be a part of the flowers post! :-)

And sad to announce that they are turning this beautiful spot into a dog park.

Common Daylily, shot last summer in July

Wood Sorrel up close

Red and White Clover

If you click image you can see difference in leaves & flowers

Beardtongue

This could be Smooth or Long Sepal

Smooth Vetch

Japanese Honeysuckle

Smells good but a vicious invasive species not good for local plants

Nodding Thistle

Another invasive species not good for local wildflowers

What a joy to ride by all these flowers 3 times a week!

And there will be new ones during the summer. 

All of these were shot on my little Canon Powershot pocket camera

Nature on my Adventures Blog

Wednesday morning I rode my bike to Farmers' Market north of downtown Nashville for lunch and then back. On the way there I photographed this huge Pileated Woodpecker, Wild Tom Turkey with tail spread, and some wildflowers. Could have been posted here on Nature Notes just as well. See the photos at:
http://charliedoggettadventures.blogspot.com/2014/04/biked-to-farmers-market-for-lunch-today.html

My Adventures Blog often includes nature, so consider following it as well as this one.