Recently a friend of mine, Diane Creaton, took me to a location that I had known about for many years, but I had never visited it since I didn’t know how to get there. It is what’s loosely called a “Flat-Rock granite outcrop”. These formations are composed of unbroken granite and granite-gneisses and are implaced
This blog entry represents a day trip into the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, North Carolina to find and photograph Galearis spectabilis, also known as Showy Orchis: I had been told about this location late last year, and wanted to document the growth stages of this beautiful orchid. While we were there, we also saw
This morning, Walter Ezell and I met Keith Bradley in Brevard, North Carolina to photograph a couple of early orchid species. For the next five days, heavy rains were predicted, so we wanted to take a chance that only a few flowers might be in bloom, and to take advantage of the great weather this
First, let me mention that there seems to be much confusion about the name of the site. It is either Pearson Falls or Pearson’s Falls. The owner of the site, the Garden Club of Tryon, North Carolina, lists it as Pearson’s Falls on their website, but the road leading to it is called Pearson Falls
OK, a little alliteration never hurt anybody. This was one trip I had been wanting to take for quite a while. I had arranged to meet my friend, Diane Creaton, from the South Carolina Native Plant Society, at Table Rock State Park to make the 7-mile round-trip hike up the side of Pinnacle Mountain, the tallest
After Will Stuart and I left Jones Gap State Park (see previous post), we drove up to a little known state Heritage Preserve called Watson-Cooper Heritage Preserve. Among the other interesting wildflowers in the preserve, there is one, Helonias bullata or Swamp Pink, that stands out from all of the rest. It is a federally
I had recently seen some great images of a strange form of Trillium catesbaei or Catesby’s Trillium taken by Will Stuart, a flickr friend. So, I contacted him to ask him where he had seen them. When he told me, Jones Gap State Park, I asked if he would like to make another visit and
When I left Whitewater Falls, I made a return visit to Oconee Station State Historic Site. This site was orignially established in the late 1700s as a blockhouse for soldiers on the frontier. It also served as a trading post for local residents and Native Americans. The attraction for me on this day was Trillium
After leaving the Hwy. 25 road cut (previous blog entry), I drove west to Whitewater Falls in Transylvania County, North Carolina. It is located near the South Carolina border in the Nantahala National Forest. The National Forest Service says, “The word “Nantahala” is a Cherokee word meaning “Land of the Noonday Sun.” The name is
This site was one I had found several years while driving “up the mountain” toward Asheville, North Carolina on U.S. Hwy. 25. I had noticed what looked like white wildflowers in the distance, down the ravine. It is just barely in South Carolina — upper Greenville County, to be specific. I’ve always said that I
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