Location Taken: Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada
Time Taken: July 2012
I’m used to irises. Both my Grandmother and Mother have some in their gardens. I suppose that’s why seeing wild irises is both a true delight and a very odd experience.
I mean, they’re garden flowers, right? What are they doing hanging out along the side of a lake?
Blue Flag Irises are quite native to North America, though, and that includes Newfoundland. And they really do look right in place amongst the other flowers and plants along the rocky beach front.
Still, I’m so used to thinking of garden flowers as something special and exotic, and wildflowers as the everyday flowers that are less valued though not less beautiful, that the mix-up of the two boggles my little mind.
Still, they were very lovely. I probably couldn’t have take a poor photo of them if I tried.
