[April 24, 2016; Greenbrook Preserve] In the late afternoon, after visiting my mother at Brookdale/Emerson, I visited the Palisades Nature Association’s Greenbrook Preserve, on the Hudson Palisades Cliffs in Tenafly NJ off of Route 9W. I took a set of trails that looped around Greenbush Pond, which is a small anthropogenic impoundment created by a low concrete dam on Green Brook. I paid special attention to the spring vegetation: May Apples, Fern fiddleheads, skunk cabbage, as well blooming Blueberry bushes and Birch trees. The sky was clear and the afternoon sun was lighting up the pond beautifully. I crossed the dam, scattering a few Canada Geese that were hanging out there, and then walked the Gravel Road back to my car.

I stopped by Alpine Marsh, which is a few miles further north along Route 9W. Canada Geese paddled its waters, too.

About an hour.