 Arrowleaf balsamroot (yellow, a.k.a. Balsamorhize sagittata) with purple larkspur |
 Prairie smoke a.k.a. Geum triflorum |
 Cirrus plumes seeming to stream off the cliffs of Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite |
 Nowood River below Tensleep, cutting through soft redbeds of Permian Goose Egg Shale |
 Arrowleaf balsamroot with lupines |
 Golden eagle -- one of a pair that soared high above the north upper rim of Tensleep Canyon |
 Classic western scene -- snowcapped peaks beyond fields of flowers. Anvils are from early storms in the northern Bighorn Basin. |
 Nelson larkspur (Delphinium nuttallianum). Don't feed it to yourself or your horse; the entire plant is toxic. |
 Evening in the Bighorns: Slate skies beyond fields of wildflowers |
 Growing bouquet of multicolored lupines |
 Dolomite cliffs above Tensleep Canyon |
 Carpet of flowers: lupines, larkspur and balsamroot |
 Rocky Mountain phlox (Phlox multiflora) near Meadowlark Lake. Cheyenne Indians crushed the leaves and flowers to use as a stimulant. |
 Stratus rolling into the Bighorns from the plains, beneath altocumulus. This was a comforting sign of several low level easterlies and midlevel instability, with favorable deep-layer shear for the chase day to come. |
