Thursday, May 17, 2007

Smoky Mountains Part 2 - Wildflowers



With names like Lady's Slipper, Dog Hobble, Yellow Mandarin, Squawroot, and Foamflower, how can the wildflowers of the mountains fail to fascinate? Here are a few of the flowers we saw blooming.












10 comments:

Katrina said...

Oh, I LOVE these!! So beautiful!

Susanne Barrett said...

Gorgeous! Love these.

The ladyslipper are so amazing -- I've always read about them but have never seen them.

Claire said...

nicely done!

LauraLiz said...

Tell your dh the reddish flowers I saw on my walk with J. that first day are apparently a kind of rododendron (no time to look up spelling). I saw it at my botanical garden.

Gorgeous pics!

Sandie said...

Beautiful!!!!! I love wildflowers. I even took a summer bontany class on wildflowers, so that I didn't have to take biology! It turned out to be one of my favorite classes ever.

Carol Ann Weaver said...

Such pretty little pictures of all the flowers!

NoVA Dad said...

I could easily see you, after looking at these, putting together a book of photographs of wildflowers and such. You have such a great eye for these photos.

Jess said...

Just lovely! You're inspiring me to go on a day hike :)

MaryD said...

I love these flower pics! Very fun to see such a variety.

SUSAN said...

Incredible. You could do a little book and sell it in the Smokey Mountains. :-)

Susan