RHH's photos with the keyword: crescent lake

I am going to post some pictures from a three-day trip my wife and I made to the Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park last spring. After getting an early ferry from Coupeville to Port Townsend we drove across the north end of the Olympic Peninsula and around the west side to the Hoh Rainforest. This was one of our first stops on the way to the Hoh. Lake Crescent lies along the road on the northwest end of the national park and we stopped several times that first morning for photos. This is one of my wife's photos.

This is Crescent Lake and East Beach. The lake is in the north end of Olympic National Park and is one of the locations to which we go when we are orchid hunting in the Olympics. This shot was taken in the early morning the first day of a two day trip to the Olympics last summer.

This orchid was photographed in Olympic National Park at East Beach on Crescent Lake. It was one of the last native orchids to bloom during the summer.

This very showy native orchid, Epipactis gigantea, is known as the Chatterbox because of its hinged mobile lip which moves up and down like a talking mouth in the slightest breeze. It is also known as the stream orchid for its love of wet places. These were photographed near Crescent Lake in Olympic National Park last summer. Further information and more pictures can be found at: nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2010/09/c...

Piperia elegans, also known as Habenaria elegans and as Piperia maritima, is an impressive species, standing up to and over 100 cm tall with numerous small white flowers, as many as 75-80 per spike. I well remember seeing this species for the first time in a shady area where its tall spikes stood out like glowing candles in the dim light. It is rightly named the "Elegant Piperia." It is not common anywhere in its range which reaches from British Columbia to California and east into Idaho and Montana. It grows in sunny areas as well as shade but is a shorter and heavier plant in good light. The individual flowers are a little less than 1 cm in size, though the spur is twice as long as the rest of the flower. It is said to be sweetly scented, but I have not been able to detect any scent when I've seen the species. Like the other Piperias this species has a few leaves close to the ground that have usually disappeared by the time the plant flowers. The flower spikes, then, appear to be some sort of strange leafless plant, but in fact have already lost their leaves. This plant was photographed near Crescent Lake in Olympic National Park, Washington. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2010/12/e... This was published in the April, 2011, issue of Orchids, the magazine of the American Orchid Society, in an article titled "Taking Aim."