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,
On Thursday evening, Walter Ezell and I returned back to Greenville, South Carolina from 4 days at our mountain cabin in Elk Park, North Carolina. I was acutely aware that I might have just missed the second (and most significant) seasonal bloom cycle of Triphora trianthophoros or Three-birds orchid in the Pisgah National Forest near
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.
In my previous post of the trip, I highlighted the orchid species we saw along the way. This report will highlight the other wildflowers we saw and photographed. The first day of our trip to the Northwest (Washington state) took us to Olympic National Park. The main access to some of the higher portions of
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