Latourell Falls

This is a great time to visit the Columbia River Gorge, and we have been doing lots of it! In summer, the waterfalls will not be as spectacular.  And because of the unusually cool weather we had this spring, wildflowers are still putting on an amazing show.  Jasper and I joined a group of homeschoolers on a hike that started at the Lower Latourell Falls and climbed to see the Upper Latourell Falls.  

Scouler's Corydalis

Waterfall mist.

Cyanide Millipede.

Red Elderberry flowers with a millipede visitor.

Fairybells.

Fringecups.

Thimbleberry.

Delphinium or Larkspur.

Dame's Rocket (?)

Monkey-flower.

A kind of dragonfly called a darner, because they reminded someone of a darning needle.