Last year I discovered one-flowered wintergreens (Moneses uniflora) and round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) too late to shoot them, so I was determined to get them this year. Only problem was, I wasn’t seeing either of them in the locations where I found them last year, but after exploring the forests around me, I found them elsewhere. So I got my one-flowered wintergreens, but none of the round-leaveds showed any immediate photographic potential so they are still on my ”wanted” list. But as if to compensate for it, I have discovered two new wintergreen species – the green-flowered (Pyrola chlorantha) and then today, the common wintergreen (Pyrola minor)! That’s a lot more wintergreens that I was expecting. I don’t know why I haven’t seen these flowers before… my only theory is that now that I’m trying to learn botany, my eyes have finally opened up to see the flowers around me. It seems like not a weekend passes by without a new discovery. That can only be a good thing!