In addition to Mother’s Day, today was a good friend’s birthday. A dozen folks joined us on a wildflower walk across the lower east side of Mt. Helena. we ended the walk with a fantastic Huckleberry cake. I feel like this needs to be an annual event.
Finding Wart-berry Fairybells on the sunny side of Mt. Helena was a welcome surprise. Finding a few Bastard Toadflax and Lewis’ Blue Flax getting ready to bloom was also welcome. Finding Alpine Forget-me-not in bloom was a bonus. I didn’t expect ot for a few more days. I love that shade of blue!
The Labrador and I took our favorite family (that is not or own) up to the Mt. Helena burn and found the patch of Maiden Blue-eyed Mary to be thriving. It’s always nice to get out in nature with kids who are really starting to take an interest in the world around them.
Purple Pasqueflowers are starting to slip into their ‘skeletal’ stage- where they display only the wispy threads that follow the loss of their vibrant petals. Prairie-smoke is beginnging to bloom. (see below)
Despite the prolonged cold season we are still climbing out of, plants are doing what they have done for millenia- flowering and spreading their seeds for the next generation to take root.
Nice.
Nature, every day. 
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