I was walking in the park and saw this patch of salal. It caught my eye with its rich green color. It’s a very common ground cover and it usually doesn’t get noticed much. But when everything else is in its winter colors, it made a welcome splash of GREEN!
I’m not sure what good a fence does if it just ends instead of connecting to another section of fence or a building, but this one does.
Vine maple is one of the earliest plants to show autumn colors … but there is tremendous variation between individuals. Some are showing colors in mid-summer and others are still showing bright colors in mid to late October.
I don’t know what kind of reeds these are (hard to tell from the photo) but they sure made an interesting pattern floating on the small pond near the ‘entrance’ to Sol Duc Park. Sol Duc Park is about 7 miles up the Sol Duc Trail, most of the way to Heart Lake and part of the very popular High Divide Loop in the Olympic National Park.
These are images I took a while ago … but didn’t attract my attention at the time. Now, I like them better. No doubt you have images in your archive or buried deep in your files that would be the same for you. Remember to review your past images for hidden treasure.
It occurred to me that the opposite may be true also: if I reviewed my blog posts carefully, I might shudder at an image that I posted, now seeing it as flawed beyond redemption. Good thing I don’t review my posts, huh? (but maybe I should)
