#indian pipe

[ilovetreesreal]

ghost flowers 💀🎀

[vandaliatraveler]

The hot, steamy days of summer have arrived, and on this particular Saturday a week of intermittent rain had transformed the verdant cove forest along Quarry and Clay Runs in Coopers Rock State Forest into a muggy, dripping wonderland. Hardly surprising - Appalachia's cove forests are temperate rainforests, absorbing and slowly releasing enormous amounts of rainfall and creating the conditions for moss, fungi and ferns to grow on anything and everything that doesn't move, living and non-living. Photos above are from the ever gorgeous Mont Chateau Trail, which features a thousand foot elevation change from Cheat Lake to Henry Clay Iron Furnace, bordered on one side by a steep ravine and on the other by beathtaking rock formations and sprawling rhododendron thickets.

[mostlythemarsh]

Old Souls

[thesingingbullfrog]

Ghost Pipe

[yawninggrave]

[frikkn]

[creativecommonsplants]

Ghost Pipe by Will Brown on Flickr.

This work is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

[angeloftheodd]

I found ghost pipe flowers growing right outside of my home on Monday morning. They appeared after I did witchcraft stuff on the previous Sunday night. Ghost pipe flowers represent healing and spirits, including the spirits of the dead. I read that there’s a Cherokee myth that ghost pipe flowers grow wherever friends have argued, which is also true in my case. That’s why I am so grateful these beautiful flowers have chosen to flourish and grace the ground right next to where I leave offerings. Ghost pipe flowers are my new favorite flower. 🤍