Wicked Dark
05-03-2010, 10:45 AM
hiked up Mt. Waternomee yesterday in a quest to find the B18 bomber wreckage from 1942 (we did eventually find it), but stopped along the way to photograph trout lilies and trillium. I have never seen so many of either species and it was as though they were lining the trail cheering us up the steep slope.
a row of purple trillium not yet opened
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026569/855349887_Am5aC-L.jpg
a purple trillium crashing the trout lily party
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026503/855347682_AxcuN-L.jpg
they're so named trout lily because of the unusual mottled leaves, the blooms last about a week and the whole plant, leaves and all, dies back until the following spring
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026514/855347610_2Pw97-L.jpg
the profusion of trout lilies was really a sight to behold, they covered huge swaths of the hillside, they're about 6-8" tall and 1-1 1/2 inches wide.
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026521/855347761_yE2Te-L.jpg
Painted trillium
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026479/855346849_nkoES-L.jpg
anyway...still processing photos of the plane wreckage and the giant waterfall on Walker brook.
a row of purple trillium not yet opened
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026569/855349887_Am5aC-L.jpg
a purple trillium crashing the trout lily party
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026503/855347682_AxcuN-L.jpg
they're so named trout lily because of the unusual mottled leaves, the blooms last about a week and the whole plant, leaves and all, dies back until the following spring
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026514/855347610_2Pw97-L.jpg
the profusion of trout lilies was really a sight to behold, they covered huge swaths of the hillside, they're about 6-8" tall and 1-1 1/2 inches wide.
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026521/855347761_yE2Te-L.jpg
Painted trillium
http://wickeddark.smugmug.com/Nature/A-Walk-in-the-Woods/P5026479/855346849_nkoES-L.jpg
anyway...still processing photos of the plane wreckage and the giant waterfall on Walker brook.