A close look at the ground cover around the bog of the Lonesome Bog Hiking Trail in The Shoals.
Tag: plant
Cosmos, near Silverton, Oregon, 2011
A single cosmos flower in front to the fields of bachelor’s buttons and calendulas.
Tricolor Field #3, near Silverton, Oregon, July 2011
Another view of the field of flowers outside Silverton.
Tricolor Field #2, near Silverton, Oregon, July 2011
Tricolor Field, near Silverton, Oregon, July 2011
Fields of flowers civer the rolling hillside of a flower farm outside of the the town of Silverton, on the way to Stayton-Sublimity, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Vines, Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica, 2012
Vines twist together alongside a trail at Manuel Antonio National Park.
At the Canopy Layer, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012
The bridge at the canopy layer reveals philodendrons, ferns, orchids, and other plants, all competing for precious real estate on an avocado tree.
Dragonfly on a Solanaceae, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012
A small black-and-red dragonfly hangs onto what I believe is some kind of Solanum sp.. Our guide gave a name, but I have forgotten it. I do recall him saying that the berries are used by natives as a stomach cure, but that one would have to be really sick to make the disease worse than the cure in this case.
Palm Fruit, Restaurante Las Iguanas, Muelle, Costa Rica, 2012
The colorful fruit of what I believe is the pejibaye, or peach palm, a fruit mainly local to Costa Rica.