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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

Trillium Flowers, Muir Woods

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Trillium Flowers, Muir Woods

Trillium Flowers, Muir Woods. Muir Woods National Monument, California. March 7, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

New trillium flowers blossom on a damp morning near the end of winter at Muir Woods National Monument, California.

This weekend I visited Muir Woods again – I’m working on building a varied set of photographs from this park. While the previous weekend was more of a typical winter day with overcast and drizzle, this weekend was the first fair weather after several weeks of rain. Plants and flowers were coming up everywhere and water was flowing everywhere. Among the many new flowers were trillium plants coming up everywhere, and many were blooming.

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

Oregon Oxalis

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Oregon Oxalis, Muir Woods National Monument. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell
Oregon Oxalis, Muir Woods National Monument. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell

Oregon Oxalis. Muir Woods National Monument, California. February 28, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Oregon Oxalis (or Redwood Sorrell) plants in the soft light of a redwood grove at Muir Woods National Monument, California.

In many places this intriguing plant covers the forest floor in the heart of Muir Woods National Monument. I’ve always just thought of it as “clover,” but I had this nagging suspicion that it might have a different name. It turns out that it is oxalis oregana, also known as oregon oxalis or redwood sorrell. This patch was located in a rather dark area beneath some large trees, and the water drops were left over from earlier rain. In my mind, this small but lush plant, carpeting the forest floor, represents the rich character of the undergrowth of the redwood forest.

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Near Leidig Meadow, Lower Three Brothers – Yosemite Valley

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Near Leidig Meadow, Lower Three Brothers - Yosemite Valley

Near Leidig Meadow, Lower Three Brothers – Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. November 2, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Forest-rimmed near Liedig Meadow and the lower face of the Three Brothers, Yosemite Valley, California.

Actually, I’m not certain I have the name of this meadow quite right*, but the closest named area I can find on my maps of the Valley is listed as Leidig Meadow – so I’m sticking with this until I get a better answer. This is one more photograph from my November 2008 rainy weekend in The Valley – and like many of the others from this shoot it features diffused overcast light and colors altered by two days of steady rain.

Update: Several people have confirmed that this area is known as Leidig Meadow. Now I just need to determine the origin of that name.

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

Dry Grasses, Morning Light

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Dry Grasses, Morning Light

Dry Grasses, Morning Light. Calero Hills, California. February 1, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Golden dry grasses in morning light at Calero Hills, California.

I photographed these grasses and seeds near Castillero Pond at Calero on yet another sunny and dry winter morning on the first day of February.

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