Seven of us drove the long dusty Baldy Creek road to the PCT access point and headed for Peony Hill. Along the trail we saw dozens of flowering plants, shrubs and trees. The stars of the show on this trail were the huge drifts of Royal Jacobs ladder, as well as the here- today-gone -tomorrow peonies. They do not last long, so it was great that we caught them when we did. We then voted to head the rest of the way up Tyler Creek to Highway 66 and find the elusive Lady Slipper - oh boy!

SHRUBS & TREES
Bitter cherry, Choke cherry, Oregon grape, Red current, White current, Badhip rose, Oregon white oak, Deerbrush, Thorny gooseberry

OTHER FLOWERS
Blue-headed gilla, Frosted paintbrush, Siskiyou onion, Star Saloman seal, Plume Salomon seal, Fendlers meadow rue, Fendlers waterleaf, Siberian miner's lettuce, Oregon sunshine, Manroot/Wild cucumber, Sticky cinquefoil, Five-fingered cinquefoil, Woodland star, Nineleaf biscuitroot/Lomatium, Upland Larkspur/Delphenium, Jessica stickseed, Pioneer violet, Roundtooth ookow, Valerian, Small flowered blue-eyed Mary, Sticky starwort, Fernleaf biscuit root/Lomatium, Largeleaf sandwort, Roezl's penstemon, Checker lily/Mission bells, Pacific waterleaf, Spotted coralroot, Yellowleaf iris, Sticky starwort, Baneberry, Rosy plectritis, Meadow death camas, Pacific panicle, Hooker's fairy bell, Lambstongue ragwort, Rosy owls clover, Indian potato/Yampah, Sulfur buckwheat, Arrowleaf buckwheat, Rough eyelash weed, Western Columbine, Northern sanicle and I'm probably missing a few, but you get the idea. Don't forget to figure out the Mystery flower...

Now the question is, who still wants to see the Mountain Lady Slipper? Rich will probably take the Monday group by there tomorrow and possibly Francie will do the same with her Wednesday group. I could take interested parties next Saturday. Let me know.