The embrace

This image is from the wonderful nature preserve in the Mississippi Palisades State Park near Savanna, IL. What struck me was not only the contrasting color but the botanical oddity. The white trillium (grandiflorum) thrives in our limestone based soils and grows in this location by the many thousands. The red trillium however is more common in the acidic soils of the east where in NH it is little more than a roadside weed. In IL it is on the threatened and endangered list. I don't know of anywhere else that they grow in such close conjunction.

Nikon 700; Nikkor 200mm; 0.4s at f/32.0 -0.67, ISO 200; Tripod