In An Alpine Meadow, Beside A Ditch Filled With Show-Melt, These White Blossoms Pop-Up Everywhere!
…. “Only Grass Everywhere Filled With Little Pink And Blue And White Dots Of Intense Color.“

….[ “Soon we are between banks of old snow, the way snow looks in early spring after a thaw. “ ] “ Little streams of water run everywhere into mossy mud, and then below this into week-old grass 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. Dark sky now and cold. Except where the sun hits. On the sun side my arm and leg and jacket are hot, but the dark side, in deep shadows now, is very cold.“ [There’s not a tree anywhere,] “only grass everywhere filled with little pink and blue and white dots of intense color.“

~1.5 Straight Line Miles SouthSouthEast Of Rock Creek Vista Point First Roadside Rest Area, Beartooth Highway, MT. Even these beautifully phrased flower descriptions of ZMM page 110, are poetically getting us ready, by analogy, for the ZMM Narrator’s “ High Country of the Mind“, where there are “ Little pins of colored [philosophical] light shoot forth to me from a background of somber [every day normal thinking] ...little pink and blue and white dots of intense [philosophical thinking] “ !!
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….During My 2002 ZMM Route Research Trip, I Captured In Photographs An Example Of Practically Every Flower I Saw.
…. However, as you can see in this Photo Album you are looking at in my “Flowers” Album Photographs, In The Highest Elevations Of Beartooth Plateau, I Did Not Find The ZMM Narrator’s Colors. such as the area of the /\ Above /\ Photo at this WayPt =136 at 9554 feet.
…Here, and higher elevations, are where I looked for but did not see “pink and blue flowers“. In fact, such flowers I did not see until well after the snow fields and return to elevations below 9500 feet. What could be the reasons for this absence? Reasons could be =>
..1) My travel thru here was almost a month earlier in the season than the Narrator’s.
..2) The Narrator must compress into a few short paragraphs a vast travel experience, many different times and elevations.
..3) OK, so it is. Each ZMM Traveler can expect to see the high country “differently”, whether philosophic or real.
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….Certainly, In These Quick Sketches, We Catch The Narrator’s Thrill Of The High Country =>
…. The Real Physical Landscape Scene,
……..And By Analogy => The Mental & Philosophic Landscape Scene!

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(Photo = 106-0619 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt =136`|k|' 9554ft)

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