February 24, 2025: McDonald's Ferry Ranch & Lower Deschutes River (Sherman County, Oregon)

I knew it was mostly too early for flowers at McDonald's Ferry, but I'd never been there before and wanted to scope it out.

McDonald's Ferry Ranch (BLM)

spring draba
prairie stars
last year's silver-leaf phacelia
last year's Carey's balsamroot
Grass Valley Canyon
last year's fleabane stalks
Gorman's desert parsley (salt-and-pepper)
sagebrush
moss
John Day River

Lower Deschutes River

prairie star
meadow nemophila
last year's hairy golden-aster
Ferry Springs Canyon
brittle-leaf saxifrage, budding
shrub with last year's flowers
last year's shooting-star seed capsules
Deschutes River & Columbia Hills
gold stars
last year's grass, barley, or rye
Deschutes River
basalt sunburst
last year's Columbia goldenweed
Pennsylvania pellitory leaves
Jungermann's monkeyflower leaves
stinging nettle leaves
Gorman's desert parsley (salt-and-pepper)
Leiberg's stonecrop leaves (and last year's fruits)
yellow bell
bright green moss
pink prairie star
soil crust lichen
sagebrush buttercup
Washout Rapids
slender phlox
pungent desert parsley
tansy-mustard (which?)
Deschutes River
whole-leaf saxifrage, budding
evening light on the Columbia Hills

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