In The Spring
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.
05/27/2008
What beautiful pictures. Sounds like you had a wonderful holiday.
05/27/2008
Denny - I admire you for spending time in the woods and soaking up nature. The flowers are just beautiful. Thanks for sharing with us.
05/27/2008
Thanks Kristine and Marian - I did have a wonderful couple of days. I’ve always said I’m more comfortable in the mountains than I am anywhere outside of them.
05/29/2008
denny great pics.
looks like the first one is a pink lady slipper (some folks call them moccasin flowers). not exactly a rare flower, but a spectacular one. the yellow lady slipper is rarer, the wetland white and pink and white ones are rarer still. ladyslippers have a mycorrhizal relationship with soil fungus that has stymied my attempts to transplant to mom’s house (some lasted 2 seasons before kicking the bucket).
the next 2 are flame azalea, rhododendron and blueberry family. the last one appears to be some sort of Sedum, probably one of the forest ones that tends to grow on boulders and in rattlesnake dens and ginseng patches. you can often find plethodontid salamanders hanging out underneath the mats of sedum and moss.
nice pics
06/03/2008
I believe the orange flower is a flame azalea. I’d be interested to know what the white ones are because I do see them a lot and have never been able to identify them.
Beautiful photos.
06/04/2008
Thanks Karen for the info and the compliment.
06/05/2008
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