Glacier National Park – 2 of 3
August 16, 2015 by Jayah Faye Paley
Filed under Nature, Travel
Part 2 of 3 – Vegetable-ish (flowers, etc.) It’s impossible (for me) to capture the abundance of hillsides full of color, but here are some close ups 🙂 Remember to click on any photo to enlarge and click the back button to return to the post.
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Above are purple penstemon (the photo I worked hardest to take, laying on my tummy on the rocks), pink monkey flowers (in lava rock – technically not Glacier, but Newberry Volanic National Monument in Oregon) but we saw LOTS of monkey flowers at Glacier. I really like how the pink contrasts against the black lava rock. Last photo above of snow berries. Below are are a rare white flower (our leader knew the name, but I forgot), fireweed, painbrush, columbine (my favorite flower photo), buckwheat and cascading corn flowers.
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Here are some non-flowers, hence the term vegetable 🙂 lichen on cliff wall and 2 kinds of red berries. If you’re going to enlarge just one or 2 photos, make sure you click on the lichen to see the colors of the rock and the detail.
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Thanks to my friend Alison for helping me select a new camera for this journey. I think the close ups are reasonable and you’ll see in the animals post why I wanted the ZOOM.
Awesome pictures-you’ve beautifully captured the floral wonders of glacier national park. Most people are pleasantly surprised by the persistence of flowers among the terrain.