Warning: This will be a fairly lengthy post due to the number of images that I want to show you. So go get a “cold one”, sit down and relax, and enjoy the adventure. Sunday morning came awfully early, because I had stayed up late the night before downloading and reviewing the images I took

I have to chuckle a bit over what happened to me when I got to Jacksonville, North Carolina where I had made plans to stay overnight. Actually the chuckle is rather a grimace. I had made plans to stay at a motel on Highway 24 (Lejeune Boulevard named for Camp Lejeune, the Marine Base located

On Friday morning (August 14, 2015) I left home for what would be a 1,047-mile (1,685-km) round trip to the coastal plain of both South Carolina and North Carolina. That does seem to be a lot of mileage for traveling within my home state (South Carolina) and a neighboring state (North Carolina), but consider that

I promise that this will be the last coverage of the Triphora trianthophora or Three-birds orchids — for this year, anyway. This is not because I’m getting tired of seeing them, it’s because there will be only a handful left to bloom in the Carolina mountains this season. I would venture to say that more

Today is the predicted date for the mass bloom of Triphora trianthophora or Three-birds orchid in the Pisgah National Forest. There have been a couple of cool days followed by a couple of warming days — this will usually bring on the blooming of a favorite orchid of mine, the Three-birds orchid. Actually, I was

Although I posted images of Platanthera ciliaris or Yellow Fringed orchid in my last post, they were not yet in full bloom. So, I made another trip up to the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, North Carolina hoping to catch them in full bloom. On the way, I made a stop by a roadside site