Tell Me a Story May 2015

Bullard's Beach State Park

Flowers and More

We went camping at Bullard's Beach State Park on the Oregon Coast (where I live) and took a 4 mile walk/hike on Wednesday.  There were wild flowers blooming everywhere and initially that's what I thought my blog would be on and it is, except I've thrown in some other interesting (I think) things.

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I came across this sign and thought it was pretty interesting and I've taken a couple of the Camas flowers that accompanies this sign.

A beautiful Camas by itself

 A field of Camas

We continued our walk and found some beautiful little flowers.  Not sure of the name of all of them but I will attempt to name them.

 I thought this was some sort of wild clover, but I'm not entirely sure.

 This was growing right in the sand.  They are called beach morning glory.

 I love these tiny heart shaped bells.  They are called Salal.

 I believe this is seashore lupine.

For the life of me, I could not find the name of this flower.  I used this website to identify some of the images listed:

http://www.pnwflowers.com/ 

 Wild Iris

Wild Radish

 This is Scotch Broom and although it's very pretty and comes in all yellow blooms as well, this is an invasive weed to our area.  We pull it up out of our property.  I'm sure one day it will take over everywhere, thereby eliminating all other flowering plants.

Scotch Broom flowers.

A few more images of our walk in no particular order.

 This is a "by the wind sailor".  Read about these beautiful creatures here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150420-velella-jellyfish-pictures-california-beach-ocean-animals-science/

 Looking back toward where we travelled.  We picked up ticks in this area we believe.  Nasty little bugs.  Thank goodness we got them all off the dog and ourselves!

 Just some interesting grass I played with.

 Hub found this rusted something or other.  Kind of looked like a drain out of a ship or something!

 I have never seen tops ends of pine tree branches red!

 On the way back to the trailer, we went thru this tunnel of trees.

"Uncooked" pine cones?

This plant was growing up towards the sun.  The very ends of it were red and I thought it was very pretty!  Not sure what it is.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin