Sunday, March 22, 2009

Countdown to the New River Birding Festival (5)

Five weeks till the New River Birding and Nature Festival! [April 27- May 3, 2009]

Do you like wildflowers? Then, you'll love the hillsides of West Virginia.

Bluets (a little washed out)

Partridgeberry

Squawroot - a Life platnt!

Wild Stonecrop

Wild Geranium

Bellflower
Love the perfoliate leaf!
(Flower stem pokes right through leaf)

Little Brown Jug
(a bad photo, but also a Lifer)

Hi, Jack!
(Jack in the Pulpit)

Solomon's Seal
(not to be confused with...)

False Solomon's Seal
(aka Solomon's Plume)

And, one of the sweetest wildflowers of all,

Violets

4 comments:

NCmountainwoman said...

Lovely wildflowers. Don't forget to pack the camera. :)

Lynne at Hasty Brook said...

Oh my, oh my, oh my!

Anonymous said...

Everytime I hear New River Gorge, I can only think about Mary Draper Ingles ordeal.

dguzman said...

So nice! I sure do love wildflowers.