Very seldom do I set out to look for something to photograph, preferring instead to go out into the wild country just to be there and see what’s to be found, but with the extremely dry spring I was afraid I might miss the blooming of the Calypso orchids and so today I sought them out in a place, not where they are on display, but where they hide. These were in dense brush and tall grass under the fir trees, places where the meager moisture we have had has been preserved; in an area where I’ve seen them before. And of course, I took far too many photos of these little pleasures.
It was late evening a few days back when I discovered some Blue clematis in bloom on Munson Creek and because of the increasing darkness, all of the shots I got of them were taken with flash.
I love the way the clematis blossoms usually appear in the forest, as though they were birds flying among the branches
or demurely hiding their faces under their umbrellas.
However, on that evening several were posing with petals wide open, a pose that I had never seen before, giving me a brand new feel for the Blue clematis.
Fairyslipper, Calypso bulbosa, Orchid family
Kinnikinnik, Bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, a shrub in the Heath family.
