https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher_plant
This post is kind of a test to see if my camera still works. I’m not sure yet if the fuzziness is due to a wet lens or just the growing humidity here in Florida. You see, folks, Eliza stumbled into a pond and got drenched. I miscalculated the footing at the edge of the water. I’m glad no one was there to see me as I pushed myself out of the pond, soaked to the skin and still having to hike 1.5 miles back to the car. I sat on my old towel as I drove home. Fortunately no one was home and I was able to change clothes, launder my wet things, and begin cleaning and drying out my boots… and my poor cheap camera. Are you howling with laughter yet? It’s not the first time I’ve ended up falling into a stream. I used to be an avid backpacker and had a few slips into cold water and falls on icy snow. I just chalk it up to experience.
I was exploring some back corners of Princess Place and discovered the pitcher plant… and the pond I tried to negotiate… oops. Still, the pretty lupine and pitcher plant were worth the added touch of adventure.
I’ll probably explore this portion of Princess Place a bit more in the future, but stay out of suspect swamps unless I have waders.
Oh, and I did spy a pretty whitetail deer in the woods.
I just want to show y’all I also make mistakes and still live to tell the tale and even chuckle a little at my own antics. ❤
I should have become a naturalist in this life… maybe the next one.
Eliza
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We are so relieved to hear that you did not fall into one of those Venus Man/Woman Trap plants. Your photos are still fantastic even with your wet camera. Thank you for sharing.
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The lupine reminds me of the Tronsen Ridge hike. I had camped near Liberty and had my first experience of fields of lupine! The following day I must have been a constant bother while pestering you with “what’s that?”. I bought my first wildflower book at the ranger station on my way home. I remember pussy toes, arnica, arrow-leaf balsam root, Lewisa, bitterroot,…
thanks for your mentorship
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You’re welcome. I miss the abundant flower fields of the Cascades. The lupine were unexpected, growing in pure sand in an open pine/oak woods on a hill in partial sun. Still, lupine have a taproot so do well even in thin and rocky soils. That Tronsen Ridge hike/weekend was special. I managed to identify over 100 different species!
Eliza
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I too love seeing the lupine, and paused to really enjoy all your photos. Love your attitude and perseverance. Thanks for sharing! Hugs to you – Alice
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Ohhh how I Am hearing you and undertstanding you. I have been moving house all week….and it is totally exhausting. I Am grateful to be able to laugh and not really care and be attached. And so much of the OLD is not allowed to come into the new house. Hmmm!! I was not aware of this at all! I will keep smiling. Hugs Libby
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You have an entertaining tale to tell, now that you and your new camera are safe! And well worth it if it meant finding those lupines and pitcher plants – very neat! You’re pretty much a naturalist to me (us?) – I love your photos, esp having everything identified by you, since most plants are very different to the ones I have around me in Quebec. Well except for the lupines – they are one of my favourite spring flowers…. Thanks Eliza! Francie
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Close encounters of the pool kind and then slogging your way for 1.5 miles back to your car. Yikes, but yes, Eliza, your adventure made me smile as I’ve done it myself and know that very wet sluggish and squishy weight while feeling quite silly about the predicament. And if your pictures are any indication in this post, your little camera is fine. And yes to the spring flowers and where I am the robins returned last week and it’s a joy to hear them. Much love, Altea.
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Ha, ha! 🙂
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The mockingbirds are singing all the time. Spring is here. Thanks, Altea!
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