At the end of September, I walked through the woods around my home and found two perennial wildflowers. I hiked back the other day to see how they were faring. The hike was painted with mostly earth tones. The Sweetgums are mostly red, but looking up sixty feet at the underside you can't tell until the 6" diameter, star shapes sail to the ground. It can stop my hike and have me picking up the almost leathery stars to see if they are bright yellow , spotted red, or a brighter red or even a burnt red. A flag I had placed at the sight was in view. I was pleased to see Slender Ladies Tresses standing short, but straight.
Then just a quarter of a mile to the next check point the Indian pipe was pretty hard to find. I still wasn't able to find it standing right above it, looking at the flag I placed weeks ago. I had to kneel down and get two foot from it:-)
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