by Rich Leighton | May 27, 2017
Very recently I was taking a “day off” (inside joke for those who know me personally – I work in some capacity nearly every day of the year) on a scouting trip for future photography trips in the Olympic National Forest. Near the Skokomish Indian...
by Rich Leighton | May 26, 2017
When you think of the Pacific Northwest, you usually think of lush coniferous forests, snow-capped mountains all throughout the year and never-ending rain. But did you know that as close as a one hour drive to the Canadian border, there are wild and endemic native...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 26, 2017
Today’s post is about one of my favorite wildflowers found in the swampy hardwood forests along the Gulf Coast – the cardinal flower. I was hiking through an area near Bristol, Florida called the “Garden of Eden Trail” when I spotted this...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2017
Quick post for today. I’ve been sitting on this photo of a trio of black-necked stilts for a while because I saw something in it, but it just didn’t look right. Then I had one of those “a-ha!” moments and cropped it from a horizontal...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 21, 2017
As is often the case in wildflowers, telling one species from another can be exceedingly difficult. Especially when there are naturally occurring hybrids, same species with wildly variable physical attributes and just geographically separated populations of the same...
