A walk through the rainforest (picture, photos, light, beautiful)

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[CAROLA ALVES DE LIMA]

Dear Sanspeur ( are you "Le chevalier sans peur e sans reproche???")
your photos are beautiful! but as a brazilian I would like to know were have you taken them: the "samambaia"sprout is fantastic ! but I saw other trees that I didn't recognize as tropical. Best regards, Carola Alves de Lima

[sanspeur]

Originally Posted by CAROLA ALVES DE LIMA

Dear Sanspeur ( are you "Le chevalier sans peur e sans reproche???")
your photos are beautiful! but as a brazilian I would like to know were have you taken them: the "samambaia"sprout is fantastic ! but I saw other trees that I didn't recognize as tropical. Best regards, Carola Alves de Lima

This rainforest is temperate, and is on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. The sprout you mention we call a fiddlehead...It is on a sword fern.

The trees in the first photo are Douglas Firs...Rather small ones, as they can reach 85 meters in height. The large tree in the second picture is a Western Red Cedar which can attain a height of 60 meters and more than 6 meters in diameter.

I am not who you think I am, but chose the name because I was called fearless during my years at sea.

[CAROLA ALVES DE LIMA]

Thank you for your quick answer! I forgot to ask about the last photo: are the beautiful flowers "lotus?" although smallers, they also look like "victoria regias"!
Canada is really a beautiful country; I've been visiting a couple of times, and hope to do it again.
"Le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche", comes from a very old french romance "Beau Geste", a novel about the Légion Étrangère in Africa and their very courageous members...

[sanspeur]

I don't know the scientific name...We just call them Waterlilies.

From the old grows the new.



Sitka spruce... Only found near the ocean and grow to 90 meters tall.



Woodland Star...Tiny, but striking.



Checkered Skipper butterfly.



Male Chum Salmon in spawning colors.



After spawning....Death, but the start of new life.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/pugbug/deadsalmon1.jpg (broken link)

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Red cedar.





The trees on the ocean shore compete for sunlight.



Sometime I find a meadow sprinkled with wild flowers.



Camus.



Seablush and Maiden Blue Eyed Mary.

[Spree]

Those are really pretty shots, I would love to go there someday. Thanks for sharing :-)

[Inthesierras]

Very pretty photos!!!

[sanspeur]

Here are some of one of my favorite trails.

Early on an autumn morning when the air is colder than the lake.







The dipper who fishes in the stream.