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the rest of the pics! (if someone would like, I took several shots showing the whole ridge covered with wind turbines. would have to merge several pictures and would likely be feet long!)


flowers of indian cucumber root. if you are a native orchid hunter and are looking for isotria, you can confuse these plants/leaves for the orchid unless you've seen enough to tell them apart. the non-orchid has a solid, thin wiry stem and the large whorled pogonia has a thicker but hollow stem (which is dark purple). also the ind. cuc. root has a sort of fuzzy stem


a closeup of the plant that had purple rather than blue flowers


larger plant of white columbine growing in front of the farm that the orchid location caretaker uses on weekends and holidays as a camp


wind turbine behind one of the many hilltop swamps (huge)


a turbine either being constructed or repaired


a very small section of the region that is filled with I think nearly 300 wind turbines. I think you can barely see in the distance some of the foothills of the adirondack park mountains