June 27, 2014

Orange Honeysuckle ~ Lonicera ciliosa
June 26, 2014

Red clover ~ Trifolium pratense
June 25, 2014

Pointedtip Mariposa Lily, Three-spot Mariposa Lily, Baker’s Mariposa ~ Calochortus apiculatus ~ Found only in Canada’s British Columbia and Alberta and in Oregon, Idaho and Montana in the U.S.
June 24, 2014


Skyrocket ~ Ipomopsis aggregata
June 18, 2014

Well, they said there was snow above 5,000 feet…this photo was taken at noon today at 5,500 feet




It’s not easy finding white flowers in this weather.










June 11, 2014
Beargrass is beginning to bloom now in the western Montana high country,

Beargrass ~ Xerophyllum tenax
and then thinking of bears… As I sat eating my lunch along a trail the other day, enjoying the cool breeze that was sweeping up the mountain and the beauty of spring in the wild country, I watched dozens of bumble bees gathering nectar from and pollinating the huckleberry bushes that are now in bloom

Huckleberry ~ Vaccinium membranaceum
and the thought occurred to me that in the spring of the year a bee which weighs about half a gram gets sustenance from the blossoms and at the same time pollinates the plants, then in the autumn of the year a bear which can weigh up to 1,700 pounds gets sustenance from the berries of those plants and spreads their seeds; what extremes in the annual cycle of a plant!
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