I got a bit off course this morning on a trail walk with our dog, Carly. We were out over 3 hours. It got cloudy fast and we had gotten some rain during the night or early morning hours. It left the woods very drippy and moist. Carly is a Golden Retriever and has a great sense of direction. She is almost 13 years old and this was a little too much for her. I usually do pretty good with direction and I had asked about this trail but I either misunderstood or was given wrong information. It was a nice trail to hike for me but after nearly 2 hours out on a strange trail Carly stops and looks at me like, "are you crazy?" She doesn't want to budge and we are several miles from where we started. We opted to turn around at her nudging. But before we did turn around I got this nice video clip of a Pipevine swallowtail feeding on milkweed in an over grown field somewhere in the middle of Beckley, WV., that we crossed through. This was not my best idea and though we got out safely it could have been potentially dangerous. I will not do that again!
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| A hornets nest that was well hidden in the middle of these dark woods. |
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| http://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Monotropa%20uniflora |
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| http://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Monotropa%20uniflora I had no idea what these were called and I found a picture of something similar on this site. Ghost flowers! They look like mushroom flowers to me! |
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| This flower is Nightshade,( Carolina Horse Nettle, Bull Nettle, Devil's Tomato) |
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| Honey bee enjoying some milkweed http://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Asclepias%20syriaca. |
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