At the end of September on a gray day, I drove up Rose Hill Road to Scott Road.    I hiked Scott Road out and back, through the soon-to-be Juniper Hills Grasslands Park.    After a hot and dry summer, the grasslands slopes were in fall colors and there were few wildflowers along the way, except for a few weedy varieties.    Along the way I stopped to observe a few late wildflowers, but the grasslands were the feature of the hike.

Shared here are a few images taken from that hike – fall asters, rubber rabbitbrush, mullein, curlycup gumweed, a cricket, and 517 acres of grasslands.

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Scientific names for these can be found on a page on this website – link.

We are looking forward to regular hikes into the park in the future.