Today, I had less than 3 hours to check out and photograph some wildflowers at a location I’ve visited on several previous occasions. The time was not limited by other things I had to do, but it was limited by the deluge of rain we have been seeing for the past week. Fortunately, there was
For many years, I’ve wanted to study and photograph a particularly uncommon, federally Endangered plant species which grows in the longleaf pine savannahs along the Carolina coastal plain. This plant species is Schwalbea americana or American chaffseed. According to Wikipedia, “…[it] is the sole species currently classified in the genus Schwalbea. It is an erect,
This is a lengthy post, so please pick a time when you can browse the text and pictures at your leisure. For the past few years, I’ve been visiting DuPont State Recreational Forest in Transylvania County, North Carolina, to photograph Cypripedium parviflorum variety pubescens or Large Yellow Lady’s-slipper orchid and Cypripedium parviflorum variety parviflorum or
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
Early this past Saturday morning, my two good buddies, Alan Cressler and Steve Bowling from Atlanta, Georgia met me at my house, and we headed up to the Blue Ridge Parkway via the Pisgah National Forest. We had such a great day, that I’m going to have to split the trip report into two parts.
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