To begin with, I was pretty, pretty, pretty close to 40°33'56.9"N 75°35'07.2"W in the map screen shot immediately below.
The next image gives you an idea of what I saw looking west from nearby Grange Road, April 21, 2024. One white flower was visible in the middle of an open field, and I walked over for a closer look.
Soon the flowers were gone and the field was planted in soybeans. But next spring, April 29, 2025 to be exact, the same kind of white flowers reappeared, shown in the third image. They're called ornithogalum nutans, or drooping star-of-Bethlehem, and evidently their bulbs are pretty hardy, if not always welcome.
Finally, a view of the same field looking south, January 6, 2026. The area shown in the prior pictures hasn't yet been dug up or graded, but in my experience, there's not much reason to be optimistic.
Until the early part of the decade, the roadside was seldom tended, and wildflowers grew all along it, including chicory, hawkweed, red clover, and Queen Anne's lace. A short distance away, purple asters thrived near the bypass. All that has changed, and I'm glad I took pictures while I had the chance.
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