Heart lake photo shoot day

My husband brought our big camera and I used my iphone to capture some of the sights along the trail yesterday. We walked about 3 1/2 miles and I used my Gaia gps app to see what trail number we needed to be on to find our way through the maze of trails near the lake. The purple arrow icon shows us where we are on the trail.

It didn't take us long to find things to take pictures of. I seemed to be one of my husbands featured subjects🤣

No, I don't know the names of everything that we see in the forest. I call this one "pretty little flower".

He caught me taking a close up of a flower.

I was getting a close up of a Calypso orchid.

We spotted some Calypso Orchid also known as Lady Slipper or Fairy slipper Orchids.

Lots of Oregon grape in bloom.

We then came across a fallen tree that someone had put markers for the dates in the rings of the tree.

I took a close up of each of the labeled sections. The above photo is the full image, below you can see what to labels say if you zoom in on the photo to enlarge it.

Another photo of a photographer photo.

My husband was patient and got some small wildlife photos, here a squirrel is having a snack,

and a couple of birds.

We walk out to the road and followed it until it came to another trail entrance.

The ferns are coming up. I took this photo

My husband got this close up of the unfurled tips of a fern.

A little yellow flower.

We didn't see many people on the trail, but we stopped and chatted with a local who had great knowledge of the plants in this trail area. She told us where we could possible find some more Orchids. Awesome, I mask up and keep my distance still when I meet people since my immunity is low while I am getting my chemo infusions.

It always pays to look up❤

More interesting sights along the trail:

Heart lake

Another photo of me.

Yes! We found some more Orchids near the trail finish.

Close up with my iphone.

A beautiful day enjoying the beauty of the Heart lake forest.