RHH's photos with the keyword: anemone

The Giant Green Anemone is found all along the Pacific coast of North America from California to Alaska. This example was photographed in the tidepools at Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park.

We've often found the Giant Green Anemone in large clusters in the tidepools along the Pacific coast of Washington, Oregon and California. These Anemones are closing as the tide recedes.

Photographed in Manito City Park, Spokane.

Photographed in Manito City Park, Spokane.

Photographed along the Harding Icefields trail in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, this is the Narcissus-flowered Anemone.

This is a Giant Green Anemone still open at low tide and photographed at Yaquina Head near Newport Oregon.

After walking around the headland at Yaquina Head Natural Area to see the seabirds and the lighthouse, we went down to the beach, itself a wonderful area of black granite cobbles, and explored the tide pools. The Purple Sea Urchins and the Giant Green Anemones were especially abundant. Yaquina Head is one of our favorite places on the Oregon coast and is near Newport.

At Arcadia Beach, our first stop along the Oregon coast, we explored the tide pools and found a lot of Anemones. These are the Giant Green Anemone and Aggregating Anemones.

We found this beautiful wildflower along the Harding Icefields trail in the Exit Glacier area of Kenai Fjords National Park. There were many of them at the higher elevations to which we hiked and, in fact, this trail was almost the only place on our Alaska trip that we saw an abundance of wildflowers.

This is the seedhead of the Western Pasque Flower or Old Man of the Mountains, Anemone occidentalis, photographed near Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park. The flowers, which bloom in the spring as the snow melts, are shown below.

The Western Pasque Flower, Anemone occidentalis, is a common wildflower at higher elevations in the Rockies and the Cascades, blooming early and just as the snow melts. These were photographed by my wife in Mount Robson Provincial Park while backpacking there and show why I always take her along and why when we get home I make sure I go through her pictures and get all the best ones. Somehow or other she always manages to outdo me and get several of the best photos of any trip we make.

I didn't even know whether I should post this - felt a bit stupid doing so - but finally decided to do so just to see what reaction it got. This, and a number of the other Skagit Valley pictures were taken in the display gardens of the Roozengaarde Bulb Company, near Mount Vernon, Washington.

Photographed at Manito City Park, Spokane, Washington, on a rainy day.