If I thought that yesterday was windy, then today was hopeless. All I could do was to scout, so I was all the more happier when I discovered some long-lost flowers nearby. I was actually looking for the round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) and found one (count them, o-n-e) where they were plentiful last year. At least it wasn’t withering like the ones I found last summer… But then when I least expected it, I came across a patch of one-flowered wintergreens (Moneses uniflora) and this was truly a joy, because I haven’t seen any of these either in the spot where I discovered them last year (when they were already withering). I had almost given up shooting this tiny flower at all, but it looks like the forest will continue to surprise me if only I take the trouble to keep looking.

Since the flowers were growing in a small depression in the forest, protected by trees, the wind wasn’t too bad and I decided to endure the mosquitoes that seemed to have flocked to this same sheltered spot. Photographing the one-flowered wintergreens is a lot like shooting cranberry flowers, minus the light!