June 27, 2015
July 27, 2012
Pear Lake, Blossom Lakes ~ Evan’s Gulch Roadless Area (3)
Flowers of the Evan’s Gulch Roadless Area
For a short time I thought about posting photos of all of the wildflowers I encountered on the trail to Pear Lake, but upon counting them and finding that there were 35 different species, I decided instead to just post two sets, leaving out many whose photos I have posted before including Glacier Lilies and Springbeauties which bloomed at the lower elevations months ago but are now in full bloom among the snowbanks that remain on the high ridge just before the trail drops down to Pear Lake.
Harebells, Bluebells of Scotland, Campanula rotundifolia
Clustered Thistle, Cirsium brevistylum
Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum
Pearly Everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea
Pipsissewa, Prince’s Pine, Chimaphila umbellata
Ocean Spray, Holodiscus discolor (These are blossoming shrubs and their large clusters of blooms decorate many hillsides this time of summer)
One-leaved Foamflower, Tiarella unifoliata
Pink Wintergreen, Pyrola asarifolia
July 22, 2009
They’re very common… and yet…
This is one of the most common of all plants in ranching country, but how often do we take the time to look at it this way…
Harebells, Bluebells of Scotland; the blue bells seem to be everywhere around here this time of year, but a few, just a very few, are not blue.
July 7, 2009
A nice surprise
This evening I explored a section of trail and found that it was indeed the eastern end of a trail that I have been researching because I think it may be a major wildlife corridor between Baldy Mountain and Big Hole Peak; a small breakthrough, but an important one to me. It wasn’t a long hike and the temperature was in the high 60’s, but there was enough “up” to the trail to move a liter of water from my hydration pack to my sweat towel.
At my starting point at the top of Loneman Divide I was pleasantly surprised to see that these Bird’s-foot trefoils were in bloom.
Bird’s-foot trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
And Nature, as She so often does, had another little bonus for me too. It seemed that the last rays of the setting sun on these Harebells was just right.
It was a very pleasant and satisfying evening!
August 4, 2008
Fishin’ trip
Bird’s-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus
True forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides
Harebells, Bluebells of Scotland
Fireweed
Oh, fish? Yep, kept one dozen fat little Brook Trout, caught on my invention (lead fly) and standard Gray Hackle (dropper). Little Thompson River. Released 40.