Close Up: Little Purple Flowers Highlight the Rocks and Last Summer’s Grass.
Cont “Wildflowers, everywhere!“
High Country, Beartooth Highway MT What’s the reasons these flowers can flourish here, whereas I did not see them elsewhere at these elevations? Why this burst of spring time beauty not in the grass my previous, or later, tundra photos? By pure chance, I had decided to down a steep Southwestern facing slope to look at the Marmot. also by pure chance, this hill side was on a slope and orientation that got much higher daily warmth. This would occur several hours after the sun’s high noon, a condition my photos happen to duplicate. The warmth advances these flowers well in advance of the surrounding land. I came through almost a month prior to the Narrator and crew, so I may have gotten to this area too early in the growing season to really expect to see the Narrator's flowers. What my photos show on this "extra warm sun enhanced slope, surly will appear later all over the higher and more level areas of open tundra seen in my photos.
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