Flash of Color

Out with the Labs for a run this morning to make the trail camera circuit.  Swapped-out the SD cards, checked for battery life and repositioned a couple of the cams for better angles but mostly because the grasses are getting so tall the field of view is obstructed.

On the return leg we were checking the cam at a new location on the north side of the creek.  I was lamenting the fact that the dogs were frolicking in a huge patch of poison ivy.  Note to self:  shampoo the pooches later.

Then...a flash of color caught my eye.  A huge patch of Blue Flag Iris (wild iris) growing in the shady damp.

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Iris versicolor, sometimes called the Northern Iris, grows in clumps or patches along bodies of water.  Iris is from the Greek word for rainbow.  Appropriate considering the wide variation of colors that wild iris portrays.