A Celebration of Wildflowers Pinpoints the High Country With Dots of Color!
“ … and then small wildflowers, the tiny pink and blue and yellow and white ones which seem to pop out, sun-brilliant, from black shadows. Everywhere it’s like this! Little pins of colored light shoot forth to me from a background of somber dark green and black.“
Beartooth Highway, MT. As noted earlier, I looked for, but did not see “pink and blue flowers“ until after I came down to elevations below 9600 feet. New topic. The ZMM passage above describes the sharp black shadows that result from intense sunlight in high altitude low humidity air. These are also the conditions for the Narator's “black blue” sky directly overhead. However, my photos of the high country do not. show the Narrator's high altitude sun illumination polemics. My photos were taken in opposite conditions: high humidity and dark very cloudy skies. Thus you see no. dark shadows nor even hardly any shadow. But even with, or because of the overcast conditions, my photos still show lots of somber browns in the dead grass.
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(Photo = 106-0639cz1.2 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt = 140i2 10920ft. Photo at = 148`|w|' 9578ft)