A Trip to Eastern Washington

One a recent trip to Spokane we made several stops in eastern Washington for photos, though one of our stops, a planned hike was cut short by a phone call about a sick friend.  Many of the photos are my wife's and they were taken across eastern Washington from the Cascades to Spokane.

Chiwaukum Creek

dawn

Hooker's Fairy Bells

lichens

Large False Solomon's Seal

Red-banded Polypore

Western Fairy Slipper

Bobcat

(this was the only photo my wife was able to get)

the creek

Near Plain

Balsamroot and Lupine

Western Spotted Coralroot

Devil's Gulch

the trail and the scenery

Lupine

Along the Columbia

near Rockport

the river

Near Medical Lake

fields

Lupine

Missouri Iris

Phlox and Ponderosa

Ponderosa cones

Large-flowered Brodiaea

 Douglas's Onion

 swamp

North Cascades

Diablo Lake Overlook

Near Plain, Washington

 After leaving Derby Canyon early in the morning on the 10th of June, we went on to the town of Plain, north of Leavenworth.  We visited a site outside the town looking for the rare Clustered Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium fasciculatum), also known as the Brownie Lady's Slipper.

We quickly found a lot of the Western Spotted Coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata var. occidentalis) in the woods.  They seem to be very abundant this year and this site was no exception.  We searched everywhere for the Lady's Slipper, however, and in the end only found four plants.

We spent quite some time photographing them, not an easy task on the steep slopes where they grow and also took a few other pictures of the area and the wildflowers there before going on to our final hiking destination, Chiwaukum Creek, west of Leavenworth.

We had also been to the area about a month earlier and took a few pictures then as well, especially of the Oregon Anemones (Anemone oregana) in bloom.  At that time we found some of the native orchids growing in the woods but not yet blooming.