Got up early and watched fog rivers rolling from the little porch off our room off the Parkway.
Traveling again at last.
Am recently returned from a long day in the upper mountain counties with a botanist friend. Posts coming about that, but first a few examples of this fall’s color and other sundries collected on Saturday and on a Parkway drive last weekend. Up first, the rose hips of Rosa palustris Marshall [...]
This is not a blackberry winter. The flox survived the night. Not traveling much these days. Hope to a bit soon. Plenty to visit in the backyard. As in:
Sunday, December 24, 2006
This Yellow Pond Lily resides in the water gardens at the NC Botanical Garden. Photographed in September, 2006.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Lots of red hot pokers in the world. This one lives in the NC Botanical Garden. Photographed in September, 2006.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Not sure exactly what kind of Carphephorus this one is, but it sure is bright. Photographed in late September, 2006 in the Croatan National Forest.
I expect someone will write in to let me know what it is exactly, but if you want to try your hand at an ID start here.
Friday, December 22, 2006
This August, during a visit to Tater Hill Bog, just outside of West Jefferson, I headed up the hill and into the woods with a couple of botanists in search of a seep. It was an eerie place with large boulders and lots of moss, lichen and various other growth affixed to the trees and [...]