RHH's photos with the keyword: peshastin

Derby Canyon is near Peshastin, Washington, on the east side of the Cascades, and is a favorite place for spring wildflowers. We were in the area this past week though this picture was taken a year ago. The photo was taken along one of the roads in the canyon, a logging road, and looks back down the canyon. We had stopped here for photos of Lewisia tweedyi (see inset), which grows only in a limited area on the east side of the Cascades and which is found in abundance in this canyon.

I believe this is the Silvery Blue, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, but am always willing to be corrected. There were a large number of these and of Acmon Blues at a muddy spot in the road when this photo was taken. The road was a Forest Service road in Derby Canyon near Peshastin, Washington.

Derby Canyon is a sandstone canyon in eastern Washington near Peshastin. It is one of favorite places for spring wildflowers (the previous photo of the Western Peony was taken there) and is a wonderful place for exploring and hiking. The northern side of the sandstone ridges is usually heavily forested and the southern side dry and much less heavily forested. This is the northern sides of a ridge still very green but bare as a result of a forest fire there some years ago. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/05/orchid-hunting-in-leavenworth-area.html

In Explore July 19, 2011, #296. This was photographed in Derby Canyon, east of Peshastin, Washington. We were hiking in the area looking for our native peony, which we found, but which was finished blooming. We were driving away when we spotted these right along the road, and so we ended up taking another hour for photos of this most elegant of Lady's Slippers, the Mountain Lady's Slipper. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2011/07/c...

Last week on our way home from Spokane and the Columbia River gorge, we stopped for the morning in Derby Canyon, just east of Peshastin. This is eastern Washington, so it is much drier than the western side of the mountains and here one finds rather arid sandstone ridges with canyons between them, fabulously beautiful country and we were blessed with beautiful skies that morning. We found the Mountain Lady's Slippers we were looking for, but did quite a bit more exploring in the canyon as well, both by car and on foot. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/07/derby-canyo...

We have been away for several days to see our handicapped son. We left rather suddenly and without planning on being gone. My apologies for the delay in returning comments. I'll catch everyone up in the course of the day today. On July 13th, as part of a longer trip, we made a few hours' stop in Derby Canyon, east of Peshastin, Washington. We went to see these Lady's Slippers in bloom, but found a lot of other wildflowers blooming as well. The Mountain Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium montanum (montanum means "from the mountains") is the largest flowered and most elegant, though not the showiest, of our native Lady's Slippers, growing to three feet tall with six inch flowers. This photo was the best of the day, but was not taken by me. It is my wife's photo. Since it is her birthday today it is all the more fitting that I post one of her pictures instead of one of my own. Happy Birthday, dear! ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/07/derby-canyo... nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2012/07/m...

Photographed in Derby Canyon near Peshastin, Washington, I believe this is the Showy or Royal Penstemon, Penstemon speciosus, though I have trouble with some of them in telling them apart. Derby Canyon is one of many rather dry sandstone canyons in the area that have an amazing flora and are well worth exploring. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.ca/2012/07/derby-canyon...

This little butterfly was photographed in Derby Canyon across the mountains earlier this spring. It was a chilly morning and he was not yet active, allowing us to get close enough for good pictures. I believe I have him correctly identified, but if someone knows better, I would be happy for a correction. These little butterflies are hard to photograph and hard to identify. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/07/derby-canyo...

Photographed in Derby Canyon on the east side of the Cascades, this lovely wildflower is found only in a few counties. Its botanical name is Calochortus lyallii, and while these flowers are almost white, it can have a purplish cast as well. It grows and blooms in the spring for a relatively shot period of time. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/07/derby-canyo...