Even a more common locally native orchid makes my day brighter.
Habenaria/Platanthera dilatata loves the ditches along especially the lower parts of the Going to the Sun Road in GNP, Montana USA. I always have to stop and gaze at them for a moment when we bike the road in the summer, before it opens to cars.![20240621_200916.jpg 20240621_200916.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46594-d96afedc7f6f5feaf305325581e82c9b.jpg)
![20240621_200939.jpg 20240621_200939.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46595-9a4e6440e837ebc9ec38b08e42a71b24.jpg)
I think there's a spider lurking in there somewhere. I see a leg!
![20240621_200901.jpg 20240621_200901.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46596-f9ac014ea4e1f30f577d1ed132277e42.jpg)
And I'm sorry, there's not orchids in the next two pictures PER SAY, but surely they are there under all those trees! I couldn't mention this particular road without a taste of the view!
![20240621_213121.jpg 20240621_213121.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46597-ac1a9ea78e06d01a71e9bfa3efe36fb3.jpg)
![20240621_212753.jpg 20240621_212753.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46598-a5272247e8a99535a47653ee4298f4b4.jpg)
Notice these sunset pictures are from rather up high, so we rode down mostly in the dark, skirting around not one but TWO mama bears. Never again.![Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile: 😅](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png)
Daytime only. Anyway, I digress. Cute orchids that I always love to see!
Habenaria/Platanthera dilatata loves the ditches along especially the lower parts of the Going to the Sun Road in GNP, Montana USA. I always have to stop and gaze at them for a moment when we bike the road in the summer, before it opens to cars.
![20240621_200916.jpg 20240621_200916.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46594-d96afedc7f6f5feaf305325581e82c9b.jpg)
![20240621_200939.jpg 20240621_200939.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46595-9a4e6440e837ebc9ec38b08e42a71b24.jpg)
I think there's a spider lurking in there somewhere. I see a leg!
![20240621_200901.jpg 20240621_200901.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46596-f9ac014ea4e1f30f577d1ed132277e42.jpg)
And I'm sorry, there's not orchids in the next two pictures PER SAY, but surely they are there under all those trees! I couldn't mention this particular road without a taste of the view!
![20240621_213121.jpg 20240621_213121.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46597-ac1a9ea78e06d01a71e9bfa3efe36fb3.jpg)
![20240621_212753.jpg 20240621_212753.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/46/46598-a5272247e8a99535a47653ee4298f4b4.jpg)
Notice these sunset pictures are from rather up high, so we rode down mostly in the dark, skirting around not one but TWO mama bears. Never again.
![Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile: 😅](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png)
![Melting face :melting_face: 🫠](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1fae0.png)