My Everyday Photos

It’s been kind of a difficult last month or so with the loss of my mother-in-law and other more minor challenges and I haven’t found myself doing much photography for fun. And I’m also into the start of a busy wedding photography season so I seldom even pick up a camera for fun unless it’s the cell phone, always in my pocket. You can see what I’ve been doing with that right here.

Yesterday, despite a sore back, I made myself take the big DSLR on a walk around our hill and find something, anything to photograph. There are still some wildflowers around and the weeds are abundant. While we have made a good dent in the knapweed/barnaby and the mullein, other undesirable species are flourishing. Maybe next year we can take on some new ones.

One of those Darned Yellow Composites that puzzle me so often.

Sweet little daisy

Douglas sunflower

Sky stops to smell a late balsamroot

One of the many summer flowering buckwheats

Phacelia sp. Very common on the burned landscape

aster?

And the mariposa lily, Calochortus macrocarpus

A favorite for sure.

Seed pods from the other Calachortus on our hill – the cat’s ear lily

Arabis

yarrow

In some places the native bunch grasses are coming quite strong. This hillside used to be covered with bitterbrush

And in other places the ground is covered in tall pasture grass. Nothing else competes with this rhizomatus grass.

A large patch of tumble mustard.

Tumble mustard is two to three feet across and tall.

Salsify seed head

Another mustard

Dalmation toadflax growing on neighbors’ property

And yet another mustard.

Bitterbrush seedlings

This tree which seemed to be dead has some new growth on top. But is it enough to sustain the whole tree?

The tallest tree here has new growth on top.

Bunch grass seedlings that were seeded last fall.

A surprising sunflower seedling. It must have been planted by a bird.

Crested wheatgrass lines our driveway.