Gorgeous clover.
I believe this is a birch.
Wow. Clover again.
Mussel shell. I wonder who carried it up here by the sidewalk, a fair distance from the water.....
Wait a minute -- compared to the stuff above, all of which I've seen many times before, this is something seriously exotic! An immature bald eagle, sitting in a tree above the sidewalk.
The predominant trees in southeast Alaska are Sitka spruce and western hemlock. This is spruce.
The big leaves and white flowers belong to cow parsley, with some fireweed in front of it.
We could see cow parsley from the train as we came south toward Anchorage. It was interesting to see the vegetation change as we came south, and the cow parsley seemed to appear in multitudes, all of a sudden. I'd asked the guide on the train, but he didn't know what the cow parsley was. One of our tour-bus guides later in the trip enlightened me.
(We were seriously spoiled by Richard, our guide the first day on the train. It seemed that he knew about everything, and he told about it all in such interesting ways. The guide our second day on the train was much less knowledgeable.....)
Nothing to explain here. Let's go have lunch.
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