Out and About

These pictures were taken on different days and different locations by myself and by my wife while we were on one or another of our excursions or traveling.  In no case were there enough pictures to warrant an individual post, so I've thrown them all together in one post.

WASHINGTON PARK

Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary

Oregon Fawn Lily

 Common Camas

 Columbia Black-tailed Deer (Fawns)

Henderson's Shooting Star

FRAGRANCE LAKE

Misty Morning

DECEPTION PASS

Grass Widows

Bee Fly

Osprey

PACIFIC RIM INSTITUTE

Douglas Firs

Siberian Miner's Lettuce

Hoverfly on Common Camas

 Red-banded Polypore

LAKE PADDEN

Oregon Forest Snail

HOYPUS HILL

Candystick

 Cyanide Millipede

 Sword Fern

Slugs on Skunk cabbage

Trail

More Sword Fern

 CORNET BAY

Bay

Deception Pass Bridge

ORCHIDS

Western Fairy Slipper

 Albino Western Fairy Slipper

Western Spotted Coralroot

Golden-stemmed Western Spotted Coralroot

Western or Merten's Coralroot

Striped Coralroot

Western Heart-leaved Twayblade

Columbia River Gorge

We spent Monday evening and Tuesday morning exploring old Highway 30 on the Oregon side of the Columbia River gorge, starting out at sunrise and arriving at our hiking destination around noon.  What a beautiful area that is with all its waterfalls and with the awesome scenery of the gorge visible all along the route.

Horsetail FAlls and Multnomah Falls

The Bridge at Multnomah Falls

Vista House

The Columbia Gorge Looking East from Vista House

The Gorge Looking West from Vista House

Sunset through the Windows of Vista House

We started taking pictures of the falls already Monday evening, but photography was a bit difficult since the sun was already going down and the contrast between sun and shadow did not allow for really good photos.  We drove from the Bridge of the Gods to Vista House before looking for a place to spend the night.

The next morning we started early and drove from Pendleton back to Horsetail Falls along old Highway 30.  We stopped at most of the falls for pictures, even though we had seen them the evening before.  We also stopped for pictures of some of the wildflowers that were growing along the road.

The Gorge Looking East from Angel's Landing

Looking East with Vista House Visible on the Cliffs at the Right

Through the Parapet at Vista House

Latourell Falls

The Falls at Sheppherd's Dell

Sheppherd's Dell

Blue-eyed Mary

Unnamed Rivulet

Common Camas

The Cams had a few White-flowered Forms

Poison Delphinium

Horsetail Falls

Piggy-back Plant

Multnomah Falls

We spent Tuesday afternoon hiking before heading to Portland but that's another post.  All in all it was an incredible two days.  We had seen so much that we were a bit overwhelmed by it all and it was a relief to land in Portland at a friend's home in preparation for the meeting of the Oregon Orchid Society Tuesday evening at which I spoke on the "Native Orchids of the Pacific Northwest."