August 2015 Road Trip
/Our August road trip was from Maryland up to New York (south and south west) primarily for waterfalls in New York State Parks from a base in Mt. Morris NY. I have several subsequent posts planned about the state parks. I’m focuses on the drive itself today.
Our first rest stop had Monarch friendly milkweed among their plantings….but no butterflies.
The sunflowers were in all stages of development and harbored quite a few different insects:
Bees
Wasps
And wheel bug (with a much smaller fly).
Several other rest stops along the way had similar plantings.
My husband was driving leaving me free to take pictures while we were moving down the road. The drive through the middle of Pennsylvania is through the Allegheny Mountains so there are sections of raised highway and
Steep road cuts.
The day we drove up was sunny (and hot) with fluffy clouds building.
On the way back it was somewhat cooler because it was cloudy much of the time. The high humidity made it feel hotter than it was. I manage to get a picture of the replica of the Statue of Liberty on an old bridge support in the Susquehanna River as we zipped past.
