White Fairy Slipper

We were out on the Olympic Peninsula this morning with the Washington Native Orchid Society looking for Fairy Slippers and Coralroots, so I thought it would be appropriate to post this beauty. This is the rare white form (albino or alba) of the Western Fairy Slipper, but it was not photographed on the Olympic Peninsula. I photographed this nearer home two weeks ago. We saw Fairy Slippers this morning but no white ones. I've only seen around a half dozen of them among all the thousands of Fairy Slippers I've seen. This is Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis fma. nivea, i.e., the Bulbous Calypso, western variety, white form.