Learning to Slow Down and Look at the Wildflowers

Photo taken by North Bennett.

For how much I time I spend admiring, touching, and smelling wildflowers, I am terrible at identifying them. The purple ones? Lupine or aster. Yellow? Sunflower, maybe? Except I recently learned that sunflower involves a whole family.

This summer, I decided that will change. Part-watercolor, part-passion project, here are some of the places my quest has taken me.

A fire lookout in Gallatin Canyon.

A very beautiful hike through an old burn near Anaconda, MT.

Up and down the M countless times to gawk at the Arrowleaf Balsamroot.

A few cold dips in alpine lakes.

And finally, to a mountain top at sunset.

Photo taken by Jacob Hall.