RHH's photos with the keyword: the ravines

Photographed in the Ravines park in western Michigan, I believe these are the flowers of Shadbush. The insets are all of various structures in the park, which was once private land and partly a farm.

This suspension bridge is on one of the trails at Grand Rapids Ravines, a park in western Michigan.

This old barn, once part of a farm, is now in the Ravines park in western Michigan.

This covered bridge along the Grand River is in the Ravines park. I do not know anything about it, however, and do not even know if it is original. The area was so wet when we were there that the bridge could not be reached.

I've identified these flowers as the Alkali Buttercup and that is the best I can do. They were blooming in The Ravines, a west Michigan park when photographed and they were everywhere in the wet areas of the park as the insets show.

These Buttercups were blooming everywhere in the wet areas of The Ravines, a park along the Grand River in west Michigan.

These, I believe, are Alkali Buttercups, photographed in The Ravines, a park along the Grand River in west Michigan. They were growing here with Skunk Cabbage.

We have a Skunk Cabbage in Washington but it has yellow upright spathes very unlike this with its brown and green "flowers" down at the base of the plant. This was photographed in The Ravines, a park in western Michigan near Grand Rapids, and I am posting it this evening because I am not at home and probably will not be able to post anything tomorrow morning. I have been out orchid hunting all day and will be doing the same at least part of the day tomorrow. It was a reasonably successful day. I visited three locations, hiked about six miles, and found six different orchids if one counts the different varieties as well as the different species. My apologies, too, for the delay in responding to comments - just haven't had time today.

This Skunk Cabbage, photographed in western Michigan in the Grand Rapids Ravines Park, is very different from the Skunk Cabbage we have in Washington, and a different genus as well. This is the spathe and the flowers are the small white objects inside.

This Skunk Cabbage does not grow in Washington. It was photographed in Michigan in a park near Grand Rapids called The Ravines.

This Skunk Cabbage is in a different genus from the yellow-flowered Skunk Cabbage we have in Washington. It stinks just as badly, though.