A Celebration Of Wildflowers Pinpoints The High Country With Dots Of Color!

…Also At Left On The Vertical Wooden Branches, Are Seen New Spring Time Pussy Willow Buds!

….[ “ … and then small wildflowers, the tiny pink and blue and yellow and white ones which seem to pop out, sun-brilliant, from black shadows. Everywhere it’s like this! Little pins of colored light shoot forth to me from a background of somber dark green and black.“ ] .
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A Repeat Description Of 5th Photo Previous -> The ZMM Narrator’s Flowers =>
…The flowers here appear to be Mountain Marsh Marigolds (Caltha leptosepala) also known as White Marsh Marigold, Broad-Leaved Marsh Marigold and Elkslip. As the the name suggests, these flowers thrive in wet areas, such as the snow-melt ditch in the picture above, or the mossy mud described in the passage from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Considered harbingers of spring, Mountain Marsh Marigolds are plentiful after snow-melt and bloom early spring through august in alpine and sub-alpine meadows in the Rocky Mountains. Actually from the buttercup family and not a true marigold, Mountain Marsh Marigolds are a treat for foraging moose and elk.
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~4.9 Straight Line Miles SouthSouthWest Of Rock Creek Vista Point, First Roadside Rest Area, Beartooth Highway, MT. As noted the previous photo, I looked for, but did not see “pink and blue flowers“ until after I came down to elevations below 9,600 feet.

My Photos Are Opposite To The ZMM Narrator's Much Repeated, Bright Sun—Dark Shadows, High Country Scenery Illumination Discourse, Which Typically Happens At High-Altitude, With Low Air Humidity.
….The ZMM passage above describes the sharp “sun-brilliant, from black shadows.“
that result from intense brilliant sunlight in high altitude, low humidity air. These are also the conditions for the Narrator's darker “ black-blue sky“ directly overhead.
….However, as mentioned earlier, my photos of the high country do not show the Narrator's high altitude "brilliant sun illumination, with dark shadows. ”
…My photos were taken in opposite conditions, high humidity and dark, very cloudy skies, with no sun.
….Thus, in /\ Above /\ Photo, you see no dark shadows, nor even hardly any shadow. But even with, or because of the overcast conditions, my photos still show “… yellow and white ones which seem to pop out … “ from the watery mud with lots of somber browns in the dead grass.
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(Photo = 106-0639cz1.2_IMG.JPG ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt = 140i2 10920ft. Photo at = 148`|w|' 9578ft)