We enjoyed lots of walks in the woods last week. The forest is dominated by Western Larch trees with a good mixture of other species as well. There has been a lot of rain this month and everything is green, green, green! There were fewer flowers than I remember seeing in past years – maybe because we were a little later – but it seems like there should have been more. A pond below the campground was just a big puddle when we arrived and overnight it grew into a good-sized pond where Sky could swim. As the week went by, it shrank. Its water is overflow from the lake. We walked to see the Big Trees – two 900-year-old western larches that were spared when the area was logged back in the 1960’s.
Penstemon growing out of a rock
wild strawberries
Mountain ash
western bunchberry
wild clematis
The only fairyslipper orchid that I found
mushroom and strawberry leaf
tree fungus
Pileated Woodpecker work
bearing tree
Old marks
Young western larch tree
larch needles, cone, sticks and bark
dogs with 900 year-old larch
This is what 900 years looks like
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