BLAZING STAR

The forecast was to be another sunny beautiful day so, I left the house around 4:30 am and headed to the Burnidge Forest Preserve. The previous days I scouted out a few areas to photograph the wildflowers and the Burnidge Forest Preserve had plenty to photograph so, I made that my priority today. I knew where in the preserve I wanted to go to photograph the wildflowers because, there were an abundance of them. It wasn't long before I reached the area of wildflowers I wanted to photograph. As I came upon the wildflowers, I noticed a few tall purple flowers standing out from the other wildflowers and knew that those were the blazing stars. The sun was just breaking the horizon and with the forest behind, it kept this area shaded during the early morning hours. Many species of wildflowers were in prime conditions to photograph including this blazing star, I set up my tripod, camera, focused on the blazing star flower and began photographing. The blazing star is a beautiful and colorful tall perennial plant and unique in that it blooms from the top down. (513-02)