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

Washington Park

Washington Park in Anacortes is one of our favorite places.  It is on a peninsula on the west side of the town and looks out over the Straits of San Juan.  The name" park" is misleading, since it is mostly wild, though there are a picnic area, a boat launch and a campground in the park.  We go there often to walk the trails and the one-way road around the park and to see the wildflowers which include five species of native orchids.  I've done one post featuring the Fairy Slippers and early wildflowers.  These photos were taken on a subsequent trip when we were there to photograph the native orchids.

the trails

a few wildflowers including:

Death Camas

Common Camas

Sea Blush

Field Chickweed

Checker Lilies

Wildflowers everywhere

Mushrooms

Mica-caps

Lichens

probably the Waxpaper Lichen

 Western Red Cedar foliage

and the orchids, including:
Western Fairy Slippers

Western Spotted Coralroots

Western or Merten's Coralroots