Falls creek falls

Five mile hike
Saturday 6/5/14
to Falls Creek Falls and Trapper Creek
with Debbie

This is where we hiked

We walked along a stream that offered delightful background sounds

The falls are huge
The sun was shinning brightly and it was hard to get a good picture

Joan and Elmer

Debbie was our able and delightful guide

The following pictures where taken by Debbie
She has a better camera than the camera I was using

The sun was bright so it was hard to get a good picture of the falls

Pictures of the happy hikers

We saw lots of flowers

Bead Lily
Also called: Bride's Bonnet, Queen's Cup
(Clintonia uniflora)
(Synonyms: Smilacina borealis var. uniflora, Smilacina uniflora)

There are twenty different lilies that grow in the Columbia Gorge.
Click Here to see a list of the Twenty Lillies that grow in the Columbia Gorge
The Bead Lily has two to three basal leaves that are elliptic or oblong in shape.

Inside-Out Flower
Also called: American barrenwort
(Vancouveria hexandra)

The leaves of this flower are divided into numerous, small, duckfoot-shaped leaflets.

The genus of this flower honors George Vancouver, the 18th-century explorer of the Pacific Northwest.

Note: the first picture above is courtesy of Debbie

Bunchberry
Also called creeping dogwook
(Cornus canadensis)

Photo courtesy of Debbie

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