#pocosin

[vernumv]

Some photos from when I went exploring a local bog a month ago. Flowers are of Yellow Pitcher Plant Sarracenia flava, Golden Club Orontium aquaticum, and Swollen Bladderwort Utricularia inflata. Bogs and swamps are stereotypically depicted as full of biting insects and other unpleasant things, but they aren’t full of mosquitoes(usually) and are actually really peaceful and beautiful places to explore.

[mdeanstrauss]

eaters... without remorse...

[the-knights-who-say-book]

The possum  sat down on the edge of the pond. It was an awkward, ungainly little creature, with big dark eyes and wicked kinked whiskers. It was halfway hideous and halfway sweet, which gave it something in common with witches.

Ursula Vernon, Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

[spiritheyregone]

(nhpbs.org)

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Pitcher plant details

[spiritheyregone]

(nhpbs.org)

[spiritheyregone]

"Pocosins are evergreen shrub bogs found on the coastal plains of the southeastern United States from Virginia to Florida. They are most common in North Carolina. Pocosins are often found between coastal freshwater marshes and deepwater swamp forests." (nhpbs.org)

[mdeanstrauss]

Shot this last July in a pocosin, which is a marshy wetland that resides within a pine forest... one of the rare places a Venus Flytrap will grow... this was shot near my daughter's home in Wilmington, NC... her home was scathed by the recent hurricane but not as badly as others...