I spent the Memorial Day weekend 26 hard miles south of nowhere and loved every minute of it. I was out on my first real camping trip of the year into the backwoods.

It’s beautiful in the mountains, right now especially. There are a lot of wildflowers in bloom. The most noticeable is the raspberry bloom, or to be more true to my roots - them dadburn briar thicket flowers.

You could be blind and know you are in the vicinity of a raspberry bush when they are in bloom. They have a very strong sweet fragrance.

I’m going to have to look for help with these next three flowers. The first one I know but it has been longer than my memory can hold out nowadays. I just can’t remember the name.

When I started posting to this blog again I said I wasn’t going to talk about mountaintop removal but I am with this post just to simply say - this is why I fight. Why would we want to destroy something so precious?

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Adding - I believe the orange blossom is a variety of Honeysuckle.