***Note: I’ll likely be off the air for a time while I convert my stuff over to a new iMac, which also involves trying to forget over 20 years of the Microsoft way of operating. Please don’t think I’m ignoring anyone…. pray for me!***
I have posted photos of a few of the flowers that are found in the Spring Creek area here in western Montana, most notably the Tolmie star-tulips. Following are some I haven’t posted eariler including a few new photos of previous ones.
The blossoms in the next two photos are tiny, at a little less than an eighth of an inch across, and very fragile. I noticed them for the first time last year and nearly overlooked them along the trail this year.
Smallflower mitrewort, Piper flowers, Mitella stauropetala
It’
s easy to get carried away photographing the Blue Clematis and I did. Please bear with me.
Blue Clematis, Western blue virginsbower, Clematis occidentalis
(Thanks to some expert help from Tabbie and Adam, I’ve identified this one as Thalictrum occidentale or Thalictrum occidentalis, Western meadow-rue)
Red clover
Lupines
Indian paintbrush
Calypso orchid
Red trillium
Wild currants
Blue violet
(By the time I get my system converted I’
m sure there will be more new ones ready for the lens!)
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