Natural History Wanderings

The Rocky Mt. Nature Photographers have a number of new wildflower updates:

7/13/15 Lots of wild rose along the road to Stillwater Reservoir.

7/13/15 Columbine field above the Bear River in the Stillwater area of the Flat Tops.

7/13/15 Paintbrush just getting started at Dumone Lake—it will be good here for the next two weeks.

7/13/5 Lupine and paintbrush near Heart Lake

7/13/5 Several places in Northwest Colorado are already showing that this could be a great year for wildflowers.  This past weekend I checked out the Deep Lake area south of the Flat Tops, Stillwater in the Flat Tops and Dumont Lake on Rabbit Ears Pass-–all with lots of color already and some reaching peak.   Colombines along the Coffee Pot Road.

7/12/15 I hiked to Chasm Lake yesterday. Numerous bunches of Columbines blanketed the talus slopes along the trail just before reaching Columbine Falls.  After seeing this display, there is no doubt about how the waterfall was named !

See photos and older reports at Rocky Mt. Nature Photographers