March 6, 2022: Mill Creek Ridge & Mill Creek Preserve (Wasco County, Oregon)
Mt. Adams & Mt. Rainier
snow on top of the ridge
Gorman's desert parsley
gold stars, budding
thin-leaf alumroot seed capsules
last year's Hall's golden-weed
worm-leaf stonecrop leaves
pungent desert parsley leaves
Dalles Mountain buttercup, budding
Columbia desert parsley shoot
antelope bitterbrush leaf buds
Dalles Mountain buttercup
Dalles Mountain buttercup
edge of Mill Creek Ridge
grass-widow
harsh paintbrush shoots
Columbia desert parsley
ball-head waterleaf leaf
gold stars
Piper's desert parsley
...and the West begins
balsamroot shoots
Columbia desert parsley
prairie stars
rusty popcorn flower, budding
gullies & ridges
slender phlox
slender popcorn flower
spring draba
Mill Creek Valley
Piper's desert parsley
California tortoiseshell butterfly
Oak Flat & Mill Creek Valley
prairie stars, budding
Columbia puccoon shoots
yellow bells
white-stem frasera leaves
western meadowlark
Peak 1504
last year's balsamroot leaves
grass-widow
yellow bells
Columbia desert parsley
view toward The Dalles
mule deer
poet's shooting star, budding
big-head clover leaf
fringe-pod flowers
Missoula Flood deposits?
Eurasian collared-dove
last year's Oregon sunshine
poet's shooting stars, budding
brittle-leaf saxifrage
red-stem miner's lettuce
nervous rabbit

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