I posted a pic of Wild Bergamot a few days ago. I found the flower in a more or less abandoned gravel pit where a rising water-table is creating emergent wetlands, and the broken ground is providing opportunity for all kinds of enterprising plants to try the neighborhood. This is another such plant. There were hundreds of these delicate orchids growing where water was standing an inch or so deep along the edge of the impromptu cattail marsh up on the lip of the pit. Otherwise known as Snakemouth Orchid, the Rose Pogonia grows in boggy, wet areas across much of Canada and the Northern US. As it happens I had never seen it before and I am pretty sure it does not grow anywhere near the gravel pit…so how did it get there???

Canon SX40HS. Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation.  f4 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 100. 32mm equivalent field of view (24mm macro for close focus and 1.5x digital tel-converter function for image scale.)

Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.