[wildgrow]

It is my terrible misfortune to have to care for and/or see this stuff.

Delicate and rare, like the pink ladyslipper...



...or the eerily attractive lunar moth...



...sunrises...



...jubilant explosions...



...

[wildgrow]

... and the colors! More than any rainbow posseses.











Woe is me.

[unclefishstick]

dude,i feel for yah...i got all these bloody hummingbirds hanging around as if i had planted stuff just for them,nervy little beggers....bloody cheeky nature with all its intrinsic beauty...im of half a mind to get really baked and sit someplace and appreciate it...that will show it!

[wildgrow]

I got stuck watching one of those greedy sap suckers today - floating around the bees balm... sticking its beak in where it doesn't belong.

Ya, Unc! I think all of us should partake and dare nature to awe us.

That's right, nature... you heard me... I dare you to take my breath away and silence my mind!

[wildgrow]

Oh... and you know whats even worse than that? On the clearest days, I can see 100+ miles of mountains that I immersed myself in wasting vacation time after vacation time. Weeks! Some of it 2 or 3 times!

All the mornings, out in the wild, when I could have slept in... But, oh no - not me. I had to go scrambling over some rock outcropping in near darkness, smoke a spliff, and watch the sun paint the world.

Im such a moron.

[clearcutter]

I feel your pain. It really sucks looking at stuff like this.

[wildgrow]

THAT is 1 fantastic pic, CC! Stunning... shame on me for mine. It did look great on my dumbphone screen at the time.

Any pics of white ladyslippers? Are you familiar with rattlesnake plantain?

[clearcutter]

I'm not familar with rattlesnake plantain. Here are a couple white ladyslippers.

[wildgrow]

Nice! Took my sis on a hike a few years ago so she could take some nature shots, we came across 2 huge patches of whites. Most had started to pass, but there were a few pristine specimens.

Rattlesnake plantain is a wild orchid that grows here - not really a plantain at all, think hostas. Grows a 6" spike with a couple dozen flowers, which are maybe a cm across, completely covering the top half.

[Gelado`]

What a terrible thread!