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Mineral King Water and Wildflowers

I know, Mineral King is supposed to be the topic on Fridays, but I have so many photos to show you that I’m breaking my policy. Can’t get fired . . . 

Crystal Creek where the trail crosses
Crystal Creek below the trail crossing
Indian paintbrush
Mariposa Lily, a non-boring white flower
The Pussy Paws are tall this year. Because they aren’t lying on the dirt, I was able to smell them, and they are STRONG. Who knew??
The lupine is a little faded this year.
My favorite penstemmon – I don’t ever remember seeing it in Mineral King before!
Fiesta Flower, I think. . .
Trail Guy along the Nature Trail that ought to be called the “Wildflower Walk” (thanks, Melissa!)
The larkspur are thick, but their color is weak

Rein Orchis is the weirdest name. It is an odd shaped white flower.
The ground is polka-dotted with Sierra Star Tulip.
Inside one of the most charming cabins (not mine, which is also charming).
Red-breasted Sap-sucker – never heard of it, never seen one before.
What is this unknown white flower? If I didn’t ignore them in all my flower books, I might know.

6 Comments

  1. The unnamed flower is in the waterleaf family. Likely Rock Phacelia

    Enjoy.

    • Wow, Susan, thank you! What flower book do you use?

  2. Jana — I love how you ‘talk’ on your blog — it sounds like we are speaking face-to-face. It starts my day off just right with my Jana-fix!

    Wanted to let you know that my hairdresser will be contacting you to talk about drawing lessons. She is a real kick — you will love her–she is younger than me (isn’t everyone), has spikey hair and has a somewhat sarcastic sense of humor. Which of course is why I love going to her besides the fact she gives great haircuts. I have talked endlessly about your/my drawing class and she really was interested.

    Hope your summer continues to be great — Dawn, draw-er extraordinaire (to be)

    • Thank you, Dawn! I’ll email you in response to your comment.

  3. Wait . . . today IS Friday, so what’s the problem??

    Penstemmon (actually, penstemon) grows all around our cabin. Rare, but pretty!

    I hope there are some wildflowers left when I come up for the annual meeting. Normally, only the Indian Paintbrush is left by then.

    And whose cabin? That looks like a lovely chair to sit and read a good book . . . like Beulah!

    Happy weekend,
    Sharon

    • Sharon, there is an occasional problem when I schedule posts ahead of time, like not really knowing what day it will appear on. You caught me on this!

      Really, only one “m” in penstemon? I guess it depends on which book. There are so many varieties, and I can only find this color listed as “Foothill Penstemon”, which clearly is inaccurate at 8000′!

      There will be aster, yarrow, and goldenrod in August, not nearly as pretty as all these others.

      I’ll tell you whose cabin in person. . . after all, this is the World Wide Web!

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