A nice spring snow storm occurred today, two inches this morning in Kalispell. The following story is a little South of Kalispell down the Swan.
After a heavy rain during the night there was a very light rain this morning and I found several more flowers blooming near the river.
Holboell’s rockcress, Boechera pendulocarpa ~ Arabis holboellii
Narrow-leaved Desert Parsley, Lomatium triternatum
And a member of the Saxifrage family that I have seen before but just now identified.
Peak Saxifrage, Micranthes nidifica
Soon after these photos were take it began to snow…. hard! Five hours later and after about five inches of heavy, wet snow it looked like this:
After taking the previous photo I headed back to the house, then instead of going in, decided to hike down near the river and perhaps get an interesting photo in the storm. On the way, about a quarter of a mile from the house I heard a loud crack and looked toward the sound just in time to see a large dead pine tree fall…
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