RHH's photos with the keyword: bay

I am back. For various reasons I took a lengthy break from ipernity but have decided at lest for the present to continue. One reason for stopping was the loss of my camera which was dropped last summer into the San Antonio River and was a write-off. I now have a new camera though this was taken with my phone before I got it. Have also had some health issues to deal with and have been very busy with other matters. The photo was taken on an excursion with our youngest son and his family the end of January, not long before they moved to Brisbane, Australia. This is part of the old salmon cannery at Semiahmoo, Washington, near Blaine and the Canadian border. In fact, the land in the background is Whiterock, British Columbia. Many of the old cannery buildings are still there but the area is now mainly a park and resort. Semiahmoo is long spit of land between Drayton Harbor part of the town of Blaine and Semiahmoo Bay and Whiterock, B.C. There is large hotel there but also walking paths and beautiful views back over Drayton Bay of Mount Baker. We spent an evening there with our family members walking some of the paths, watching the sunset and enjoying the lunch we had brought along. We will miss them in the area.

Photographed from an airplane window just as we were coming in to land at Bellingham airport.

The Western Coralroot is another species in the genus Corallorhiza (I posted a picture of another species yesterday). This species is in bloom now in our area, finished at lower elevations but just starting to bloom in the mountains. These were photographed on Hoypus Hill on the north end of Whidbey Island near Cornet Bay. The Coralroots are leafless and without chlorophyll and get their nourishment from decaying matter in the soil. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2011/07/c...

Photographed along the Singapore Waterfront at Marina Bay. The picture shows the lotus-shaped entrance building to the Art-Science Museum, the Marina Bay Sands Casino, which was putting on a laser light show at the time this photo was taken, as well as the rising moon. The photo was taken by my wife, who as usual, got better pictures than I did.

My wife an I spent the day hiking and doing photography on Whidbey Island. We visited several locations including the forested grounds of the Au Sable Institute near Coupeville, the trails at Hoypus Hill, overlooking Cornet Bay, and the trails at Deception Pass and Goose Rock. We went to the Au Sable Institute to see the Spotted and Ozette Coralroots (the former were in full bloom and the latter were not yet blooming, but we also found one other orchid in bloom, the Heart-leaved Twayblade). We went to Hoypus Hill to see if the Western Coralroots were blooming (they were not). We went to Deception Pass and Goose Rock just to see what we could find, orchids or otherwise, and found plenty to photograph especially on the balds of Goose Rock. This picture was taken on Hoypus Hill. My wife was photographing the one open flower we found on the Western Coralroots. I figured I would come back in a few weeks and see them fully opened, and wandered about looking for other things to photograph. I love the unfurling fronds of the ferns and began taking pictures of some of them, especially the curled tips, hoping to catch a bit of their unique beauty. This is one of them, which I cannot identify (I am hopeless with ferns), is posted pretty much SOOC, though I did increase the contrast slightly. If anyone can identify the fern I'd be very pleased, but that may be quite difficult without being able to see the whole plant.

I am fascinated by the endless variety of ferns and fantastic shapes of the new fronds as they unfurl. Living here in Washington, we have plenty opportunity to see them and photograph them. This photo was taken on Hoypus Hill in Deception Pass State Park on a hike with my wife and while I was waiting for her to finish up with whatever she was photographing. I do not know, however, which fern this is and would appreciate an ID. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/06/whidbey-isl...