Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I arrived at Drumheller Springs Park
It was cold. High wind. The bed-sheet sized American Flags were tight in a wind out of the Northwest, an unusual direction for the wind, here.
It was spitting fine rain, not a wetting rain, on the drive over. The rain and the wind came and went. The rain turned to slush. It was hail and for awhile it was heavy, wind driven, pea sized hailstones.
There has been enough moisture that a lot of puddles have accumulated. There was some mushy walking. I didn’t check either pond to see if water was accumulating in them.
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The light was a little stronger on Lomatium gormanii rock. There were lots of buds in different stages. They are very difficult to photograph.
No Ranunculus glaberrimus blossoms. I did find two buds, one showing yellow. I’m sure there were more but they are hard to find.
The yellow light of evening on the yellow willows with dark clouds behind were dramatic, as always. Yeah. I went a little crazy getting images of them.
There was a rainbow but it was weak. It’s only a faint streak on a couple of the photos.
I tried some hailstone photos and photos of hailstones dimpling a puddle. The best hail photo was a total accident. I was only trying to get a small willow lined up with a dark background tree.
I need to throw more hailstone photos away. Sometimes even bad photos are hard to discard.
I got a photo of my car in situ.
I attempted a lot of photos locating L. gormanii rock for persons interested in seeing early wild flowers.
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| The Lomatium gormanii bud I have been looking for |
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| A bit of the back of an Lomatium gormanii blossom new blossom below |
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| The rock where we find early Lomatium gormanii |
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| The first Ranunculus glaberrimus bud I've seen this year with locator stone |
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| This bud, apparently beginning to split open, is only a couple of feet from the first bud. These buds about where we found the first R. glaberrimus last year, on and outcrop due north of the fireplug.. |
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| The very faint streak is a dim rainbow |
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| North pond willow |
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| All of this grassy area was flooded last year. Bone dry this year. |
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| South pond willow The 'sreak' might have been a faint rainbow. I didn't notice it at the time |
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| I must have failed to keep my hand over the lense in the rain and sleet |
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| My horse |
