Mid-September is usually a great time to visit the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina. This is not my first blog entry dedicated to the wildflowers that can be seen this time of year in this area, so you will probably see some repeats of the flora in this blog entry. Even if that
Just today, someone (MB, you know who you are) requested that I finish posting the images that I took while on a week-long trip to southern Arizona where we attended the fabulous 2016 Native Orchid Conference in Benson, Arizona. Disclaimer #1: This is a very, very long blog entry. This blogger is not responsible if
Happy 4th of July! (Sorry, England…) On July 3, Alan Cressler, my botanist and photographer friend from Atlanta, Georgia and I made a day trip up to the Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina area to photograph Rhododendron maximum or Rosebay Rhododendron. I had seen it in bloom just the week before, and I wanted to get
On June 4, 2015, the last day of the Native Orchid Conference symposium in Gorham, New Hampshire, Walter Ezell and I had 3 or 4 hours to kill before the final scheduled field trip at Tin Mountain, so we decided to take the auto road up to the summit of Mt. Washington. We would be
After hearing that we would be having a visit from the Polar Vortex (otherwise known as Old Man Winter), I thought about the beautiful Looking Glass Falls in the Pisgah National Forest, and what it might look like if it were frozen. We don’t often get temperatures in the single digits Fahrenheit down South, so
I had just told myself that I would not be posting another blog entry until the first week in November when a group of us will meet in the Green Swamp, Brunswick County, North Carolina. However yesterday, I was up on the Blue Ridge Parkway visiting a few sites for Spiranthes (Ladies’-tresses) orchids. There were
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