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Blythe is the perfect example of how, when you plunge into volunteer work, you meet amazingly wonderful people. Blythe's specialty is water monitoring. When she shows up to help she even brings a powerful microscope, which enables volunteers to see the amazing tiny creatures that inhabit Little Rocky Run.
Photo: a trout lily or Erythronium americanum. This amazing plant grew in profusion along Little Rocky Run in the Spring of 2003
And especially Tony Nader, Keegan Ruddy, Peyton Olszewski, Brian Rafferty, and Nathan Zeller. These young men participated in a stream cleanup on March 6, 2004.
Photo: a pack of swamp mallows growing in the wetland along U. S. 29 in Centreville.
Bloodwort, or bloodroot, formally known as Sanguinaria canadensis, blooms in early Spring.
These three stream monitors are always ready to help us out and did exemplary service at our booth for Centreville Days, 9/11/2004. Linda is a senior at Centreville High School, Charlotte goes to Jefferson and Alex attends Rocky Run Intermediate.
All three have serious scientific endeavors in their future.
Photo shows a hellgrammite, found in many Fairfax County streams.
...is our good friend who took the time to make a really nice map of the Little Rocky Run watershed.
The photo at right was taken on a very cold winter day in February 2004. Whoever left the footprint was running barefoot on one of the trails marked on Patrick's map. Why this person was barefoot is unknown.
