Columbine fly high / intermittent creek drainage / trusty summer show
Inside the petals / you don't see it unless you look / a Desert Five Spot
Bitterroot on basic ground
Scarlet locoweed / in the Alabama Hills / the year's first flower
Inyo bush lupine / a color variation / usually blue
Straight out of the sand / Eureka dunes base / a desert primrose
Showy Gilia / on the alluvial fan / below the high peaks
Winterfat near town / on the alluvial fan / Independence edge
Shooting stars along the edge of Robinson Lake
Crimson columbine calls out from a steep slope along Golden Trout Creek
Sierra columbine in Little Lakes Valley
How many colors / boulderfield and a flower / shades unlimited
Sierra columbine thriving in a drought year
White lupine on the side of McGee Mountain
Pink is one of the preferred color shades for the Sierra columbine
Wild iris near lake / mosquitos buzz all around / Little Lakes valley
Poison angelica near Onion Valley
Early spring bloom in the far southern end of the Eastern Sierra
Duplacus rupicola or the Death Valley monkeyflower
Anderson buttercup bee habitat
Parry's linanthus field
Claret Cup cactus in Central Arizona
Anderson buttercup in the Buttermilk Country
The Anderson buttercup (Rununculus andersonii) is the first flower to bloom in the Buttermilk Country
Pygmy poppy
Evening snow ready to unfurl in front of some Parry's linanthus
Golden gilia and Parry's linanthus
Parry's linanthus north of Olancha
Big bugs in a poppy
Cream Cups growing near the Inyo and Kern County line
Lilac sunbonnet
Desert Five Spot (Eremalche rotundifolia)
Fremont's phacelia with a cinder cone and the Eastern Sierra
Eremalche rotundifolia just seems to work as a Latin name
Rose Valley delight
Sand verbena near Fossil Falls
Holy dandelion field east of Fossil Falls
Holy dandelion, a dry lake, Cinder Hill and the lower eastside
Devils spineflower
Desert five spot with smaller than usual spots
Desert Calico
Lilac sunbonnet in the Inyo Mountains
Desert Five Spot inner workings
Snowbrush and Mount Wiliamson
Mojave Mound cactus up close and personal
Snowbrush near the mouth of Symmes Creek
Fresh snow on phlox in a flower garden on the side of Peterson Mountain
Mojave Mound cactus blooming in the Inyo Mountains
Mojave Mound cactus in the Inyo Mountains
The only place I've seen this type of Monkeyflower is close to Olmstead Point
I flower I have yet to identify on a granitic dome above Tenaya Creek canyon
Indian paintbrush growing in a small crack on a granite dome in Yosemite National Park
Phlox and falls
Warner Mountains bloom
Ridge top phlox
Phlox on the crest of the Warner Mountains
Bitterroot thriving in rough soil
When we hiked up the trail, the bitterroot hadn't opened up and we were in for a pleasant surprise on the return hike
Bitterroot in the Warner Mountains of Northeastern California
Sierra columbine in the most common color schemes
Sierra columbine detail below a cliff in the South Fork of Big Pine Creek
Sierra lily in Bloody Canyon
Lower Sardine Lake and a Wild Iris
Wild Iris at Lower Sardine Lake
Sky Pilot closeup at about 12,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada
Sky Pilot view before the storm
Sky Pilot blooming above Kearsarge Pass
Sierra columbine below tall dark cliff
Wine colored Sierra columbine
Sierra columbine soliloquy
Sierra columbine up near timberline on the Lamarck Col trail
East Humboldt Range floral garden
Wild onion on the edge of Slim Lake
Even though it was a drought year, the Sierra columbine bloomed for about a month along the South Fork of Big Pine Creek
Sierra columbine swooping down below a tall cliff
Rock Fringe flowers near Sonora Pass
Botanical delight in Blue Canyon
Rock Fringe flowers growing in the open near Sonora Pass
The Inyo Bush Lupine blooming varies widely and moves from place to place following natural disasters such as wildfire and debris flows
Desert Primrose along an obscure old mining trail in the Inyo Mountains
Poison angelica looks like it is really tasty for bees
The Eureka Dunes doesn't bloom this nicely very often