Columbine

Some of the different colors of Columbine I have in the various crannies of the yard.
These two are in the front with the biggest lilacs.
I alwasy let them go to seed and they re-seed themselves vigorously
so I give them aways in droves and re-plant them all over the yard
for little flashes of June color

I have a few of these white ones too. I am not sure how that happened.

It is as if they gor bleached.

they are white on white and very pretty, they don't fotograf as well though.

Cypripedium montanum

Cypripedium montanum Dougl. The queen of the Rocky Mountain Orchids!
Mountain Lady Slipper

This plant is considered rare and possibly endangered!
It was an amazing find!
The fotos do not do it justice!
there are hot pink stripes inside of the slipper.
I took a bout a gillion fotos trying to capture the beauty of this gem, but it didn't happen for me.
I found these while riding my bike.
I caught a glimps of something strangely shped and colored out of the corner of my eye
and stopped to investigate, and was wonderfully enriched by the experience!
(somehow the fotos look better in my computer files than they copied to the blog?! How did that happen? they are much clearer on my computer, shucks!)

Live Your Art

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste.

It's what everything else isn't.

Theodore Roethke

art is whatever you do with all your heart!

do it now!

go look in the mirror and say, "I am an artist!"

Forget-Me-Not

Sharing my dishwashing view

through the kitchen window

Out into the green

Little bottles that I can't resist

Filled with little blue forget-me-nots

swizzle sticks and pretty stones

Kootenai Falls ii

Looking down the log.
Violets in the rock cliffs.

Arrowleaf balsam root.

A sun bathing snake.

I wish my camera could have captured the beautiful red striping this snake had.

She was a healthy and well fed creature!

Kootenai Falls

The top of the Falls.
This log has been here for years, it is all white and weathered.

The arrowleaf balsam root is blooming.

So are violets and syringa.

The water is very high.

The nights have finally warmed up so the snow is melting in the high country.

We spent a long time just hiking around and looking at things,

soaking in the sun and the mist.

It was a gorgeous interlude on a fine spring day!

Winter Above, Spring Below

I walk often; I try for everyday.

This day was nice off and on but there had been rain.

Here is how my walk was.....

birdsong, the smells of budding and blooming things,

rushing water...

Then I look up at the mountains and see,

Fresh Snow!

In late May!