We had a good, drenching rain on Friday night, prompting me and Althea to spend a lot of time in the woods searching for oddities over the next few days. We weren’t disappointed.








We had a good, drenching rain on Friday night, prompting me and Althea to spend a lot of time in the woods searching for oddities over the next few days. We weren’t disappointed.
Althea and I spent several hours yesterday morning stomping around Feral Bends Forest Farm to see what’s happening in the understory. Long story short: It’s stunning. Here are a few photos.
We’re finding a lot of native orchids on our forest farm, which we’ve started referring to as Feral Bends Forest Farm. Among them is the Showy Orchis (Galearis spectabilis). The photos below trace the progress of one specimen that we’ve been watching since we first noticed it on April 10 …