Kokiwanee Colors

 I have time off work, but no money to go anywhere. That doesn't stop me from going out for a good cleansing stomp through the woods at one of my favorite Acres sites, Kokiwanee. There was a sign posted at the entrance that invasive plants were going through eradication and I'm happy to say that I didn't see nearly as much garlic mustard as I have in the past. I always  do my part and pull it from alongside the path, but am so allergic to poison ivy and oak I don't dare stray too far for picking.  The lovely purple flower is ironweed, reviled by dairy and beef farmers because it will take over a cow pasture since the cows won't touch it. Goats eat  both that and another invasive species, multiflora rose, so that's another good reason to do away with the monoculture mentality.