RHH's photos with the keyword: bud

When we were out hiking last week at Fishtrap Lake the Balsamroots were just starting to bloom. The hillsides and forests will soon be filled with their yellow blossoms, but it was good to see them again. This is a flower just starting to open.

This is another older shot, taken at Catherine Creek near the Columbia River gorge on a beautiful spring morning. It's a flower of a California Poppy almost ready to open.

We thought these new growths on some of the trees in the local park were most unusual and worthy of being photographed. My sixteen year old son with whom I often go out photographing took this photo.

Rhododendron hybrid

In Explore August 4, 2011, #356. Taken along the Gorge Trail in Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge while hiking there. Which bush or tree or shrub this is I do not know since I forgot to get pictures of the plant itself. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/07/hiking-in-c... .

In Explore April 7, 2012, #345. Taken in the city park that runs along Fishtrap Creek in our neighborhood while on a walk with my wife. We are traveling and so I am delayed in returning comments, but will catch everyone up asap.

Photographed in Derby Canyon near Peshastin, Washington, earlier this spring. I do not know which of the wild roses it is of those that grow in our area, have forgotten what the plant and open flowers look like and doubt it can be identified from just a bud. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/07/derby-canyo...

This is an unopened flower of the species shown below. The plant is small, about three inches and the flowers, nearly two inches from tip to tip, bloom successively on long, eight inch spikes. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/search/label/scaphosepalu...