Indian Paint

[deadeye]

I took this yesterday.  Nice field of Indian Paint flowers.  Not a bad time to explore the fields.  Repellent will keep the most of the bugs away rather cool yet and the deer flies are not out yet.

[dakids]

Very nice.

[dew2]

I took this yesterday.  Nice field of Indian Paint flowers.  Not a bad time to explore the fields.  Repellent will keep the most of the bugs away rather cool yet and the deer flies are not out yet.

Dont see flowers like that much anymore!! Or the meadowlarks an bob-o-links that inhabited them! Is that a planting or natural?

[deadeye]

dew2, This is a natural evolved field.  Years ago, I believe in the 50's a farmer started making hay on what was a long narrow opening in the woods.  No tilling or plowing has been done.  There are still signs of the old forest that appeared to have been flattened by a storm many years ago.  You can still see many hole/humps that were created when very large trees were uprooted.  The trees were blown down with a northwest wind as indicated by position of the hole and hump left by the decaying root ball.  As far as I know and can see, nothing was ever planted here, just the natural grass that grows when the field is cut. 

[glenn57]

THOSE ARE REAL SWEET PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!