What do you do when you have 360 miles to go?

We were traveling from Whitefish Point to Ann Arbor today and thought why not stop along the way to look for orchids. This is Susan searching for twayblades.

Here’s one of the Loesell’s twayblades with a single flower open. These are hardly 75-80 mm tall.

Here’s Susan photographing a twayblade. It’s almost impossible to see them without looking very closely to each step you are taking.

Here’s another one with the lowest two flowers open.

We also found bog wintergreen in bloom.

Carex viridula, green sedge was the dominant grass-like plant here.

Indian paintbrush was also flowersing.

The yellow ladies-slippers were still vigorously blooming. This one had several spider friends.

More tomorrow…