Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Cynoglossum grande

Back in March I posted the bud form of the Great Hound's Tongue . Here is the last blossom of a group of flowers with plump red pods on the left and right, full of maturing seeds. Below is a picture that should make just about anyone blush and then laugh out loud! It's a pair of seed pods but, well...it doesn't take much imagination to see what it looks like! Definately one of my funniest shots! :D I've uploaded two other pictures today and I hope you'll visit them too! Thanks to all of you who have visited and have left comments and favorites! I try to go to all of your pages within a day or two and is a highlight for me to see your beautiful photography! :) Explored on June 18, 2012, placement #365

What an exciting find!! One of my many favorite flowers on our property is the Great Hound's Tongue, which can be found popping up all over around our lower and upper forest. I've been looking for signs of this flower every time I go out, and about a week or so ago, I began seeing leaves pop up from bulbs that I was pretty sure were Hound's Tongues. Then, three days ago when I took the dogs up to the ridge line, I found one with buds just about to open!! HOORAY!! I'm having a lot of fun taking pictures of flower buds to show before the blossom because both are very pretty and it's neat to see the difference in appearance. Great Hound's Tongue gets its name for the leave's resemblance to a dog's tongue. (They are very beautiful too, and I'll be showing a picture in the next week or so.) These flowers are found in oak or pine forests at lower and middle elevations, from British Columbia down to southern California. It is known to be poisonous and grazing animals will become photo-sensitive if they eat it. Farmers consider it a noxious weed because the burrs it produces stick to sheep's wool and is difficult to remove. If you would like to know more about this lovely flower, there is an nice page here: The Hound's Tongues of the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington . Wikipedia also has a good source of information here: Wiki: Cynoglossum Grande . Thanks to all of you who have visited and have left comments and favorites! I try to go to all of your pages within a day or two and is a highlight for me to see your beautiful photography! :)

I took one final picture this afternoon but I thought, "Oh, this is going to be a horrible exposure nightmare!" So I only took the one image....and what a surprise when I saw it on the computer! Below are two more pictures to see!

Yesterday I was walking down to the gate to get the mail when I saw a flash of blue in the woods to my right. "Could it be?!" I thought to myself as I turned to see...and then let out a whoop of joy! The Greater Houndstongue is blooming!!! I couldn't wait to take pictures today, and I actually went out twice to take pictures because I wanted my representation of this flower to be as nice as I could manage! I adore these flowers with their blue-purple faces and inner circle of cream-colored hearts! Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry and his political and social views, fame eluded him during his lifetime, but recognition grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Wikipedia: Percy Bysshe Shelley