Autumn is a wonderful time of the year when nature present a beautiful and colorful world.
Walking through the woods and watch the leaves, still on the trees, in all shades of red, yellow and brown is just a beautiful and inspiring experience.
Leaves covers the path I am walking on and the sound of them beneath my feet is kind of joyful and reminds me of a little child playing, gathering a pile of leaves, throwing them up in the air, laughing as they fall down to the ground.
September is here and it is mushroom season. Hunting mushrooms is fun, but I think I may like better to shoot them with my camera than pick and prepare them for a meal. This year there have been too little rain so now there are quite few mushrooms in the forest, but I did get a few shots and I even got to pick some for a delicious soup of chanterelle and porcini.
The mushrooms in the photos below is rough-stem bolete (Leccinum scabrum) and white birch bolete (Leccinum niveum or L. holopus). Edible but not especially tasty in my opinion.
Ling or Calluna vulgaris is a beautiful late summer flower growing in Norwegian pine forests and in the mountains. The evergreen shrub can be over 50 years old and sometimes it cover large areas. When it is in full bloom it is just like a pink carpet covering the ground.
I always thought of orchids as an exotic flower, so I think it is fantastic that there is wild orchids to be found in Norway too. They may not be quite as beautiful as the ones you find in more tropic areas, but they are beautiful in their own way.
In the forest close to were I live you can find one of the most common orchids growing in Norway, Dactylorhiza maculata also known as heath spotted or moorland spotted orchid.
Walking in the forest is like walking in a very large art gallery except you have to find your own beautiful treasures amongst thousands of displayed items.
It is fun to follow the development of the forest plants throughout the year. I always get excited when I find the blueberry plants (Vaccinium myrtillus) displaying their light pink flowers in May. The shape of the flower is very beautiful and reminds me of a greek ancient vase.
The photos show the blueberry plant in three stages.
The latin name of this little wild flower is Violeta palustris. It is very small, but I think the pale lilac color of the petals is very delicate and make the little flower stand out from the green grass it is surrounded with.
Walking in the forest in early summer you can find a lot of beautiful flowers and one of them is the yellow Trollius europaeus. In Norway it is called “flower ball”. It mostly grows next to a water source like a little creek, a swamp or nearby a pond.
When I went for a walk looking for this yellow flower ball I found it just beside a little creek and on some of the flowers there was a little visitor, a spider. I think the spider is a raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus), probably a young one due to the green color of the legs.
Arctic starflower or Lysimacia europaea is a common wild flower in Norway. The Norwegian name is “star of the forest”. This beautiful flower grows all over Norway in both the forest and highlands.
I think it is a very beautiful flower and every year I take new macro-shots of it and I never get fully satisfied with the results. Below is the two best shots from this summer.
Star of the forest
woodland dressed in green moss
silent
just the sound of light wind through the trees
little white flowers on the forest floor
shines
like stars in the night
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