Third Week of the Native Orchid Season

[ronaldhanko]

I'm way behind with everything. It's actually now the sixth week of the season but here are the pictures from week three. We found native orchids in two places, Sehome Hill Arboretum in Bellingham (Fairy Slippers and Coralroots) and Mount Si, which we climbed (Fairy Slippers). I've posted other pictures as well from both places and links to the blog posts that go with week three.

Pictures from MOunt Si:




Pictures from Sehome Hill:


Blog post for week three:
Native Orchids of the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies: Third Week of the Native Orchid Season - Fairy Slippers and Spotted Coralroots
Blog post for Mount Si:
Serendipity and Orchids: Mount Si
Blog post for Sehome Hill:
Serendipity and Orchids: Sehome Hill Arboretum

[Orchids4ever]

As always-Beautiful
Thanks for the Pictures Ron

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks for looking, Monika.

[WhiteRabbit]

Fabulous!

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks ever so much, Sonya.

[RosieC]

Fantastic pictures Ron!

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks, Rosie. Appreciate the time people take to look at them.

[euplusia]

Excellent. Thanks for the scietific names and explanations given. Many genera like Corallorhiza and Coral fungus can be found in Central Europe as well with different species and a little later in the year.

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks for your comments. As I remember your area has one Coralroot, the Early Coralroot, C. trifida, which grows here also and the Coral fungi are ubiquitous.

[samarak]

Once again, amazing photos, Ron. I sent a link to your photo stream to my wife - makes us recall some vacation hikes we took in your area. (Back when people used that "film" stuff.) The salmonberry in particular took me back 20 years in an instant, like that scene in "Ratatouille".

Are those 100 mm shots hand-held? For field photos you are getting great depth of field.

Also see you used a 200 mm lens for one of the scenic views; do you mind me asking which one? I've been looking at the 200 mm f/2.8L II USM. Any advice would be appreciated.

Steve