While driving through the Mammoth Hot Springs area we saw lots of bright blue wildflowers along the road. We were in the same area just a couple of weeks ago and didn’t see them, so they must have a narrow window of blooming.
Here are some photos:
While touring the Upper geyser basin at Yellowstone, we were amazed at the number of wildflowers that grow in the poor chemical-laden soil around the geysers. Here are a couple of photos:
I love taking close-up photos of the little wildflowers we see along the road. Here are a few of the flowers that we saw in the Grand Teton National Park:
I just love taking close-up photos of little wildflowers that we find along the roads. Here are a couple, along with a raspberry plant in an embankment along a parking area. All these are in the Yellowstone Park:
Lots of the flowers we couldn’t get close enough to take good photos of as we weren’t allowed to step off the paved walkways. But we got a couple of pictures:
As we drive through forests and meadows here in northern CA and southern OR in spring, one type of tree we see often is a dogwood. In some places they line the roads and are all in bloom.
They are really pretty trees and the white flowers contrast so nicely with the shades of green of the other trees.
We see these trees at altitudes of between 3000 and 4500 feet up, and they only bloom if they are in the sunlight.
We also took close-up shots of another little wildflower and a manzanita in bloom:
Here are pictures:
While on a tour of Shasta Dam we saw a couple of beautiful butterflies, and later saw a caterpillar.
Jeff recently bought a new camera and is having fun taking photos with it. We decided we needed a new one while at Yosemite for the Moonlight Tour – our camera at the time had no way to adjust the shutter speed and none of the pictures came out.
Now Jeff has a really nice Nikon!
This new category of posts will include photos that Jeff takes just for the artistic nature of the subject.
Here are some to start off:
