Looking to Flower

Sparky and I went to Fernwood Botanic Gardens and Nature Preserve (here after referred to a Fernwood) to place some geocaches with saintvi and joyous wind. It was a beautiful day. The sun was out but the temperature stayed at a pleasant 72 degrees. There was a gentle breeze. We had had rain but the ground was not muddy. But most of all we enjoyed the company of friends as we trekked through the woods. Saintvi took photos of beautiful and strange fungi and there were lots of them due to the earlier flood this summer. I decided to take some photos of the wild flowers. Sure I could have snapped pictures in the manicured gardens but I decided to document the beauty growing along the trails.
  
 
  
This purple thing was weird and is a soapwort gentian. I’m not sure it is exactly pretty but it was very different.
  
This pretty flower is orange jewelweed. It was really difficult to get a photo because they were bobbing in the breeze!
  
  
I scrolled through the identification guide, did a search and just couldn’t figure what most of these were called. Anyway I enjoyed seeing the variety and snapping a few photos. If you know what they are called let me know – I’m always up for learning new things… On a related note, the big geocaching event is this Sunday at Fernwood. Sparky has to work so I will be going alone and meeting saintvi at Fernwood. This is going to be so fun!!