shades of pink and burgundy
still looking for christmas trees
digory is determined to find a christmas tree to take home, even though it is still summer! he’s convinced if he can just find the right one i’ll let him sneak it out of the park. he scrambled up on this log to inspect the tree growing out of its top.
i said we could just take a picture instead.
spying another he exclaimed “this one is not very big, can we take THIS one?” to his great dismay i had to refuse.
cliffs are made for peering over
in typical little boy style, digory fearlessly climbed a cliff and lay on his belly so he could look over the edge
i used a zoom lens to photograph him from below.
peppermint drops
i’m getting better at identifying wildflowers, but this one has me stumped
this is the same flower still in bud. the weather changes so drastically in the mountains that if you go far enough you can see the same plant in all the stages from just poking through to past it’s bloom all on the same day.
flutter by butterfly
we saw a lot of butterflies while hiking, but most of them didn’t stay still long enough to photograph. these little guys were very obliging.