Go to Where the Indian Pipe grows

Molly and I debated about whether to go to the coast this morning or walk in the woods. We elected the woods because a friend of mine wanted me to take some shots of Indian Pipes. I thought they were fungi but I was wrong! After all theses years (50 odd) of simply loving Indian Pipes, today I learned  it's really a flowering plant-- in the blueberry family! http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2002.html . There are some 3000 varieties and the one in the picture below is different than the ones I found on the St. Lawrence and in Thunder Bay. The trail opposite my new home is full of plants I learned to love while in Thunder Bay. 

 I am learning about plants that  I did not know. 

It was a morning filled with magic, of a flicker sitting atop  a great white spruce scanning long the deep valley below, of robins chasing bluejays from their nest under my deck and of mosses deep and moist with bog cranberry, and bunchberry  growing through them in complete harmony.

Encore the Lungwart

Indian Pipe

Stair Step Moss

Rain drops on Tamarack

Common Rush Flower

 Common Rush

Bunchberry— nearing the end of the season to catch these beauties flowering

Pitfall trap of Pitcher plant

another Pitfall trap on another Pitcher Plant

The stunning Pitcher Plants 

Bog Cranberry in Haircap moss

Northern Bush Honeysuckle