This past weekend, several of us made separate field trips to Peach Orchard Branch, Nine Times Preserve, and Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve, all in Pickens County, South Carolina. The Spring ephemeral wildflowers were in perfect bloom. I have managed to visit these sites every Spring for several years, and I am never disappointed in what
This will be a short trip report. This morning, Walter Ezell and I left the house shortly before 7:00 am on a 3-hour trip to Stone Mountain State Park in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Stone Mountain is a dome of exposed granite of Devonian age, which has intruded into the gneiss of the Precambrian Alligator
LOL!!! How many images can I take of two blooming stems of an orchid species found out in the field? Yesterday, Walter Ezell and I made a day trip to a location in Wilkes County, North Carolina — Stone Mountain State Park, to be specific. The state park is located in Wilkes and Alleghany Counties,
This blog post will discuss the day-long trip (about 8 hours) I made up to the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina to photograph the early Summer wildflowers. The sun was in and out when it wasn’t threatening thunderstorms, but all in all, it was a very successful day. The star of the day’s
The Hoh Rainforest was definitely on my bucket list, and it was one place each of us wanted to see and photograph. Because of the dappled light on the day we visited, it was a challenge to come up with decent images. Here is a bit of history and information about this national treasure. According
The last major field trip we made on our visit to the Northwest (Washington state) was to Mt. Rainier National Park. We had high hopes for fair weather so we could see the 14,410-foot (4,392-meter) Mt. Rainier in full view. We saw a number of colorful wildflowers along our way up to the Henry M.
The last day of Spring, 2019, found Walter Ezell and me on the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina looking for Spring orchids and whatever else interesting we could find. The target species were as follows (in alphabetical order of botanical name): Neottia smallii — Appalachian Twayblade orchid Liparis liliifolia — Lily-leaved Twayblade orchid
The main reason I wanted to make this long trip was to photograph the uber fragrant Spiranthes magnicamporum or Great Plains Ladies’-tresses orchids. They are not found in the Carolinas, but they do appear in small numbers in the Cedar Glades and Limestone Barrens of two counties in northwestern Georgia. Little did I know, when
This post is fairly long and loaded with colorful images, so fasten your seat belts! On Saturday, June 23, 2018, my photography buddy, Alan Cressler met me at my North Carolina mountain cabin to get ready for a weekend trek along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. We each had a list of flowering
As I mentioned in my previous blog (Part 1 of 2) about our recent trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina, I was joined by my good buddies from Atlanta, Georgia — Alan Cressler and Steve Bowling. On our way up Hwy. 276 through the Pisgah National Forest, I suggested that we
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