Just a quick post with some more of my wildflower photos from my trip to Tennessee. I spent a couple of days before and after the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage photographing in the Great Smoky Mountains National park
. GSMNP is my favorite national park – everytime I come here to photograph I fall more and more in love with it.
These first two photos were taken at Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga. I spent a couple of hours hiking on Kiddie Trail in the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park.
Eastern Bluestar – Amsonia tabernaemontana
(c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Mayapple – Podophyllum peltatum
(c) 2010 Patty Hankins
And here are my first few photos from GSMNP
Painted Trillium – Trillium Undulatum – photographed on Porter’s Creek Trail
(c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Rue-Anemone – Thalictrum thalictroides – photographed on the Cove Hardwood Trail
(c) 2010 Patty Hankins
And finally a pair of photos of Showy Orchis – Galearis spectabilis. The first set was photographed on Porter’s Creek Trail, the second on Cove Hardwood Trail
(c) 2010 Patty Hankins
(c) 2010 Patty Hankins
I’ll be photographing wildflowers for a few more days in Tennessee – then heading home via Asheville. I’m hoping to stop at a few favorite spots in the Asheville area – the Asheville Botanical Garden and the North Carolina Arboretum. I’ll try to get one more post of wildflower photos up before the end of my trip. You can see my photos as I post them on Facebook on my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com Facebook Page.
Until then – I hope you enjoy the wildflower photos I’ve been posting