Orchid!
As Brian and I photographed, Beth looked at birds (especially enjoying views of a mated pair of Bachman's sparrows),
while Keith ranged around like a hunting dog. He found a few orchids:
Pogonia ophioglossoides and a species of
Calopogon, possibly C. tuberosa or
C. pallida.
I casually mentioned to Keith how much I loved
Cleistes. I am particularly fond of it because
Cleistes divaricata was the first orchid I ever saw in the southeast, on my first-ever bog trip so
many years previously.
BLAM, as if by magic, Keith conjured one for me that instant---a lovely Cleistes bifaria
right behind me!
Here it is with a vertical composition.
