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There were a couple of rainy hours available just before dinner today and I decided to spend them searching for a favorite wildflower, the Tolmie Star Tulip. It is still a little early in the season for them, but at the lower end of Munson Creek I was able to find three in bloom (photos [...]

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It started this morning when I did my best to catch up with a pretty little butterfly with orange tips on its white wings who was visiting one of my wife’s flower gardens. No luck there, but this small green-eyed one (Cabbage white) made a visit and that was some consolation.

After getting some yard work [...]

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Today, as it so often happens on the opening day of trout fishing here in Montana, the fishin’ gods favored the fish. I visited three different streams and didn’t even wet a fly. But that’s OK with me!
After a few days of warm weather, the snow melt has begun in earnest and the water in [...]

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This afternoon while stalking a wildflower, I was very pleased when this little guy came along and graciously stayed to pose for his portrait. I think he’s related to one I came across last July.

He appears to have a lot of attitude for a little critter only an inch tall!

He would be a good mascot [...]

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‘Me and my shadow’

is a valley butterfly found near my house.
His cousin is a high altitude butterfly, found on a mountain peak.

I wonder why.

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Yesterday I met this little butterfly in the Patrick’s Knob roadless area in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains of Western Montana. I didn’t know his name and I didn’t even know the name of his flower, but I did know that his species and his whole world is in danger of vanishing forever…

at the hands of [...]

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It was an orange day, from the clouds at sun rise

to the lilies in the late afternoon. I wonder, why orange?

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Late July in Montana is a brown time. This little guy fits right in.

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This morning I noticed a very busy little butterfly visiting a wildflower, and was barely able to detect a tiny splash of color. Then I asked the lens to show me what that little one-inch-long guy really looked like, and this was today’s surprise…

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