Some scenes along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel, just before the big spring show begins.
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The Forest Awakens
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Screaming Tree
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No Golf
It is a narrow trail along a precipitous wooded hillside, but Fox Chapel is still the kind of neighborhood where you have to specify “NO GOLF.” This is the south entrance to the Trillium Trail, which can be found on Hemlock Hollow Road, which used to bear the slightly embarrassing name of Squaw Run Road.
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A Walk in the Bluebell Forest
Virginia bluebells line a trail in Fox Chapel.
Bluebells are not necessarily always blue, as you can learn at our sister site Flora Pittsburghensis.
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Bracket Fungus
Bracket fungus growing on a fallen tree near the Trillium Trail, Fox Chapel.
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Deep in the Woods, You Don’t Need a Mask
…as someone remembered while walking the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel. But it seems that someone forgot that it might still be useful in the rest of the world.
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Great White Trillium
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Fiddlehead
It requires very little imagination to see why young fern leaves are called “fiddleheads.” This one was unrolling in late April along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.
