Yesterday in a light rain that started early and continued all day, these bloomed for the first time at the Clark Fork valley level (elevation 2,500 feet):
Sticky Geranium, Geranium viscosissimum
but about 5 miles away it still looked like this (elevation 5,600 feet). About a half mile from here I got my first look at a big bear this year. Too bad he didn’t stay around for a photo shoot!