Category: Blogs
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Garlic Mustard Journal (May 10, 2026)
From: Judy S.: On Mother’s Day I enjoyed a long session in the woods checking up on the garlic mustard status and decided to put it in journal form with photos. It was an idyllic afternoon – weather just right, almost no one else in the woods and no traffic sounds. Mother’s Day – Session # 3(?)…
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Cub Scout Litter Pick up in Scarlett Mitchell Woods
From: Judy S. Attached is a collage I put together this morning of photos I took on Monday of the Cub Scouts of Troop # 3123 on an utterly gorgeous spring evening. I got out there at 5:30, thanks to your info, before most of the kids and their families arrived and met Sasha, the…
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Garlic Mustard (Invasive)
From Judy S. On the Work Day last Saturday, a few of us walked up the path from the main entrance toward Platt Road to check out the garlic mustard status. Phil asked how you could differentiate garlic mustard from other plants. I was a bit dismissive, having 20 years of pulling it under my…
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Spring is here; ducks have returned…
From Phil H.:A new species of ducks in Scarlett Mitchell Woods: A family of rubber ducks (Anatini Cummis) was spotted floating on the pond on April 1st. This particular species of ducks occasionally has numbers on their bottoms. Interestingly, this female specimen appears to wear lipstick. Historically rubber ducks were seen racing down the Huron…
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Thanksgiving 2025
From Judy S.: The day before Thanksgiving, 2025. I am thankful for many things these days, including still existing on this beautiful, if sometimes distressed, planet. One of those things is living a stone’s throw from Scarlett-Mitchell Natural Area and being part of a group, The Friends of Scarlett Mitchell Woods, that works to keep it…
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Sunset Walk
From Phil H.: We like to get outside and walk 30 minutes each day. We’ll walk in the neighborhood or to one of the parks like Lille North/South or Scarlett Mitchell Woods. With it getting colder it’s harder to get the motivation to go out. On November 23rd we decided to walk in Scarlett Mitchell…
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Night Walk in the Woods
Ann Arbor got four inches of snow on January 30, 2024. That night, I went for a night walk in the woods with my family. We walked the loop trail and then the trail to Turnberry. One of my favorite spots to see on the Turnberry trail is the view of the marsh from the…
