![Canna Lily in bloom](https://mlra.org/mlra/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cannac1-300x279.jpg)
The Canna Lily
You can’t miss it, the fluorescent orange Canna Lily in bloom at the outside corner of the Art Studio. A perennial, it blooms in that spot well into the Fall each year.
![Coreopsis in Great Meadow](https://mlra.org/mlra/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Fig-3-sm-300x291.jpg)
An Oasis in the Great Lawn
The Great Lawn is an acre of turf located between the Community Building and the Woodland Trails. Lawns are not noted for biological diversity, except that this one contains a rain garden some 40 ft in diameter
![Wintergreen](https://mlra.org/mlra/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/wintergreen2-254x300.jpg)
A Flower Blooms on the Cathedral Trail
The Striped or Spotted Wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata) has spread and thrived from a small protected area where, ten years ago, Debbie Lux planted several specimens.
![Officer Foglia & Hollywood](https://mlra.org/mlra/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_5698-FI-300x268.jpg)
Lumberton Police K9 Demonstration
On June 15, Officer Phil Foglia and his sidekick, Hollywood, a Belgian Malinois police dog, demonstrated the skills and benefits of using trained dogs to assist the police in finding drugs and bombs and apprehending criminal suspects.
![Bring on the food](https://mlra.org/mlra/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_2820-300x201.jpg)
Good Neighbors, Good Exercise, and Good Food…All for a Good Cause
This week the Ann Naulty Diner Walk was back! On Wednesday, May 25, Ann led a motley group of people from both campuses from the Lumberton Community Center to the Diamond Diner on Route 38.
![Crimson Field](https://mlra.org/mlra/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_1208a-CrimsonField-300x225.jpg)
Other Flower-filled Meadows, Right Next Door
I have written in the past that something I treasure about Medford Leas is its proximity to undisturbed land. Let me share with you, lest it disappear in coming weeks, one such experience I had within walking distance.