#DannyGregoryQuotes #3DaysinParsippany #TheTreeCity

Whether it is Winter or any other season

New Jersey is one of the most populous states

never-the-less it has a 42% tree cover 

with Parsippany being recognized as 

THE TREE CITY 

for the past 40,000 years

because the First Children planted 

the original groves of Weirwoods

in the eastern section of the township

where you can still find a few hardy specimens 

of this species in a secret hollow

that the ice age glacial cover did not reach

but these wise and aware ancient ones are rare

and you are more likely to encounter

much younger Weirwoods

that were planted from seeds

flown on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997

and provided by the NJ State Forest Nursery in Jackson having been planted in habitats that contain 

other outstanding and popular Parsippany 
native plants some of which 
may be endangered or of local concern

such as the Wahoo, Erect Bindweed, 

Meadow Cuckoo-flower, Spiny Coontail, 

Green Adder's-mouth, Floating Heart, 

Northern Panic Grass, Strawberry-tomato, 

Hooker's Orchid, Indian Physic, 

Black-girdle Woolgrass, Lace-lip Ladies'-tresses, 

Humped Bladderwort, and every artist's favorite, Stylosanthes biflora, 

also known as Pencil-flower 

which ironically has recently become hard to find in 

Pencil-vania.

For more fun in Parsippany:

#Parsippany Pastel Mountains

#WhereTheLadyGotHerGaga

#DannyGregoryQuotes #3DaysinParsippany #ParsippanyPastelMountains

500 million years ago

a chain of volcanic islands

formed of polychromatic basaltic rocks

crashed into the Jersey Shore

creating the famous Parsippany Pastel Mountains

that grew to tremendous heights

in the western portion of the township

but were eventually worn down

by the shimmering and glimmering

 Rockaway River

 that flows into a basin

created by the Wisconsin Glacier

around 21,000 BC and looks like 

an old crone picking blueberries 

currently called Lake Hiawatha

in an area called 

parsipanong 

a word from a Lenape Native American sub-tribe

 meaning “the place where the river winds 

through the valley of the polka-dotted sky”

 in an area where the strawberry boulders

are quite common above which

 the oddly shaped stone formations

 that are the remains of the Pastel Mountains

can still be seen today.

For more fun in Parsippany:

 #TheTreeCity

#WhereTheLadyGotHerGaga