Flowers of Summer and Fall Pictures and Nature Journals

Posted by Randy Puckett Randy Puckett as iNaturalist randy135

Flowers of Summer and Fall Pictures and Nature Journals

Flowers of Summer and Fall

Photographs Sketches

And Creative Writing

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Mountain Laurel and Rhododendron photos and sketches from Mt Pisgah NC hike

June 18, 2021

I know I broke the rules but I picked blooms

Two beauties near my campsite at Pisgah

Rhododendron and Mountain Laurel flowers

Beauties made by higher powers

I wanted to prop them up to sketch

So I put them on a camp bench

Propped up with a hiking boot

Two summer beauties with many blooms

Now to attempt to draw these flowers

I used the two beautiful models to draw

Propped up by my hiking boot

Colored pencils on a small sketch book

I worked to get the colors as best I could

One with lots of pink petals so small

The other smaller flowers pink dots

Around the fringe of the petal's rims

Made a few notes about my day

Before I go out later to play more today

Lily Sketch from photo July 21, 2021

A photo, then a paper sketch of the photo, using colored pencils and art pens. I wanted to look closer at this Turk's Cap Lily by trying to draw its beauty and soul. This was near the Mount Pisgah Campground on the Blue Ridge Parkway. A favorite place I love to go to connect with the higher elevation ecosystems.

I took a short hike up along the Frying Pan trail that is covered with flowers during June through August. So much nature to see and breath in the beauty of this special place. When I returned to my Campsite, I took some time to draw a sketch in a Nature Journal (NJ) notebook from the iPhone picture I had taken.

A different feeling about this flower from my personal sketch than from the digital photograph that just took a quick snap. Both are special, but I have closer connections since I got into the soul by drawing this flower using all my emotions from inside me trying to treat it with the respect it was due for being so beautiful.

August 23, 2022

A photographic Gallery of six of the Unique Flowers from a hike and iNaturalist observation self Bio-blitz on the TVA East Lakeshore Trail. This natural area follows along on the banks of the Tellico reservoir, which is a 20 minute drive from my home in Maryville TN.

All these pictures were taken with my iPhone 7 and I did not do any digital manipulations to them. I generally use my iPhone for most of my Macro or close up photographs of flowers for iNaturalist. If I have a cell signal and use the iNat App observations for these pictures, it automatically uploads the location, date, and time for me.

The six flower observations below are uploaded to an iNaturalist project managed by

Discover Life in America (DLiA) and TVA.

This is an ongoing iNaturalist BioBlitz Project on the East Lakeshore Trail.

East Lakeshore Bio Blitz Project

Bears's Foot Smallanthus uvedalia

randy135 iNaturalist Observation:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132013700#activity_identification_d490ac2e-4c82-432d-a8aa-36925a91b158