Wildflowers #3 and Morning Light

"Sunlight came softly through my window today. . . ." — a line from Donovan that flits through my mind on mornings like this.

Mertensia brevistyla

Allium brandegeei ???

And outside, Blue and I discovered the first Wasatch bluebells poking their heads through the leaves.





























Crouching down to be close to the flowers, we're suddenly awash in the scent of wild onions!






And just because they are so delicate and pretty and even hopeful in the dry grasses and leaves, another photo of spring beauties.

Wildflowers

spring beauties hours before they straighten up and open their petals

 The seasons change, winter to spring, and as they do the snow melts and reveals what has been matted and pressed beneath it.

There are surprises and there is a predictable sequence of plants poking up through the duff.

My plan is to photograph flowers as they appear, creating a record of the sequence. I'm interested primarily in the flowers from our acre. At 5500 feet altitude, we're on a mostly north facing slope.

First (this is the case year after year) come the spring beauties, Claytonia lanceolata. And yesterday the first delicate little spring beauty shouldered aside the leaves.

Nous sommes embarqués.

Blue knows what the last snow is for

fall leavings

another spring beauty

Calico and Blue—What's the holdup?

last fall's seedpod