Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Burgess Lake on April 30, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Early in May I first visited Burgess Lake and it seemed like a good place to visit again today to perhaps see what spring was doing up there.
For some reason I had forgotten just how steep the little trail was and felt pretty happy that it was short. It’s not a great hike for those [...]
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Trillium, Trillium ovatum on April 29, 2008 | 18 Comments »
After a day in the 70’s yesterday, today was in the 40’s and a poncho was in order for hiking the trails, but this little Trillium didn’t mind the rain
and these (unknown) blossoms seemed to be doing just fine.
Posted in Montana, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged GoldWing on April 28, 2008 | 14 Comments »
With warmer temperatures now and most of the snow off the roads, it again becomes ‘Wing time and so today the bike was on the road again for its 27th summer and believe me, the pilot’s seat never felt better! It was a short ride of only a hundred miles today, just for checking everything [...]
Posted in Birds, Canadian goose, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Canadian geese, goslings on April 27, 2008 | 15 Comments »
The members of the plant world aren’t the only ones displaying new blossoms this time of year. Here are a pair of proud parents parading with their new spring “buds” too.
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on April 26, 2008 | 13 Comments »
These are the tulips that were stomped on by the snow six days ago when they were still buds. Nature’s resilience can be amazing!
These are mystery flowers. Each spring since we moved back here 15 years ago, these two little blue flowers bloom in the same spot, but only the two, the only ones I’ve [...]
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Oregon grape on April 24, 2008 | 17 Comments »
The Oregon Grape, mahonia repens, AKA creeping barberry, has begun to bloom here in western Montana despite the snow we’ve had nearly every night this week.
Its fruit consists of tiny light blue berries that can be made into great wine or delicious jelly. If you taste the berries right off the plant though, you will [...]
Posted in Birds, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Junco on April 23, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Spring, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, tagged Spring Creek, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area on April 22, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Spring Creek trail (USFS trail 370), April 22nd.
Where Spring Creek flows through the deep shade from the ridges just to the south and the cedars overhead, the look of winter remains as the spray from a small cascade coats the overhanging branches with ice.
Yup, those are my snowshoe tracks made today on this section of [...]
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Spring on April 22, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Spring here in western Montana has been delayed due to technical difficulties.
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Munson Creek, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, Wildflowers, tagged Birthroot, Trillium ovatum, Wake Robin on April 20, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Trillium ovatum; Wake Robin; Birthroot.
These were photographed on April 18th. at about the 3,500 foot level along Munson Creek in western Montana’s Cabinet Mountains, inside the TeePee-Spring Creek roadless area. (As usual when I’m around wildflowers, I got carried away with the camera.)
It just didn’t seem right that these little flowers would live out their [...]
