Posted by Marc Dilley on April 10, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Here's a Kodachrome taken in a little bog between Tuolumne Meadows and Mt. Conness, Yosemite. Kind of an unappealing name for a pretty little wildflower, you can find these in wet Cascade meadows as well.
The slide is so old I don't want to remember which decade it's from . It's in my pre-Nikon era; hand-held with my Mamiya-Sekor, back when they made 35mm cameras, on a a day of thick overcast skies. My Dad had taken me on a weekend jaunt up Mt. Conness, one of the peaks on the crest just north and east of the Meadows.
Nice. And very brave of you to venture that far into the archives. I see a lot of little "trunks" sticking out in the from of stamens. Perhaps thus the name...?
Posted by Ned Fenimore on April 11, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Odd plant for sure, but a cool looking shot for sure...
Posted by Tom Kloster on April 12, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Nice shot, Marc - good habitat context. These are gorgeous plants - we have a yellow lousewort that I've photographed on the western summit of Tom Dick & Harry Mountain. Not quite as stately, but also exotic, and with similar, lacy foliage. I mostly see these growing as solitary plants or in very small groups, so that might be why they aren't as familiar.
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3 repliesThe slide is so old I don't want to remember which decade it's from