Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Flower of the Dead

(1 picture above in a note, and a link to others) Steve and I went on an photo outing a year ago that took us to a trail that meanders along the beautiful Rogue River. I was delighted to find Campion flowers there, because they are such wonderful subjects to photograph. In the past I have only studied the blossoms, but it was later in the year and the flowers were all going to seed. In the late afternoon, I turned to see this pod glowing with the sun's last rays of the day.

This is a view from behind this pretty flower so you can see the beautiful green textured tube that it grows from. So lovely to see bunches of them, they took my breath away! From Wikipedia: White Campion is a dioecious flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-lived perennial plant, growing to between 40-80 centimetres tall. White campion grows in most open habitats, particularly wasteland and fields, most commonly on neutral to alkaline soils. Despite the wide array of conditions in which campion can thrive, it prefers sunny areas that have rich and well-drained soil. An example ecoregion of occurrence is in the Sarmatic mixed forests. It is also named the Grave Flower or Flower of the Dead in parts of England as they are seen often growing on gravesites and around tombstones. It is naturalised in North America, being found in most of the United States, the greatest concentrations of the plant can be found in the north-central and northeastern sections of the country. S. latifolia is thought to have arrived in North America as a component of ship ballast.

Today Steve and I went out to do some errands and I took my camera along to get my Picture of the Day! I saw many wonderful possibilities as we drove around, but we decided to pull off at a public trail that leads down to a creek near the Rogue River. Shady and idyllic, this forest is cool and warm, and I eagerly hopped out of the car with camera in hand, eyes wide as I took a deep breath of the fragrant woodsy air. I didn't have long to look...actually, all it took was one glance to see spots of white here and there in the dappled tree-strewn glade. White flowers beckoned me to them with their lovely faces and beautiful trumpeted green sepia tubes. For 20 minutes I lost myself taking pictures of these beautiful blossoms, and along the way I found some extremely cool spiders, a moth that looked like Beaker, and and an interesting little fly. Alas, I haven't time to show all the wonderful pictures I was lucky enough to capture, but here is one, and I have another view of these beautiful flowers below! Emile Cioran (8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist. Wikipedia: Emile Cioran