More Summer Orchids

The days are getting shorter already but there are many wildflowers yet to see. For this post, I had only to walk down the road to a neighbors wet field to see Purple Fringless Orchids and around my home for Yellow Fringed and Rattlesnake Orchids.

The Purple Fringless Orchids are a variety of colors. Typically, they are bubblegum pink, but as shown here, there are many shades, even a white.
This first one, and several like it were pink with whitish lower parts.

The white is my favorite; the flower looks like miniature ghosts. There were a couple white ones in previous years, but I only found one this year. The field is waist deep in grass and other plants, but fortunately, had not been cut for hay this year .

Yellow Fringed Orchid

Rattlesnake Orchid 

Cloud formation puts you in mind of the Cross