Carnivorous Plants of West Virginia

The Labor Day weekend was spent trolling around for photographs and scenic spots. We were lucky on both accounts. The most fruitful (no pun intended) photographs came of the cranberries and pitcher plants we fond along the Canyon Rim Road. I have found cranberry bogs elsewhere in the highlands region, but I am amazed each time I traipse down into a bog and find little berries growing down in the muck. This time they were interspersed with pitcher plants--West Virginia's carnivorous orchid.

We also slogged through a marsh in the Canaan Mountain area where there were plenty of cranberries to be found. The Labor Day weekend was punctuated by a hapenstance sighting of a young bear galloping across Canaan Loop Road only a few hundred feet in front of the car.