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A beautiful, misty, autumn lake shore…
Lake McDonald…
Autumn Morning…
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Sunset on Swiftcurrent Lake
Moose Calf in B&W
This moose calf pauses after a drink at one of the lakes in Glacier Park…
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The Weekend in Black and White
The Hike Back Down…
The sun sinking down and throwing some great light on the surrounding mountains while we hike down on Logan Pass with our big brood…
Our hike was cut a little short when we saw this big guy coming down the mountain…
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Skywatch Friday
Leaf Peeper…
A boar Grizzly Bear taking a quick break from eating berries to give us a look over….
September 15, 2014
Many Glacier, Glacier National Park
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Snow Day in Glacier…
Messing around with HDR a bit. Â A picture from Glacier National Park at Lake McDonald that I took in February while waiting for sundown.
The original…
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Misty Morning Mountains in B&W
Mountain Hollyhock…
We spotted several of these beautiful, pink Mountain Hollyhocks on our hike to Bullhead Lake in Glacier Park…
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Macro Monday
Today’s Flowers
Sunrise at Swifcurrent Falls…
Xerophyllum tenax
Bear Grass looks like a grass, but really belongs to the lily family. It is about 4.5 feet tall. Its olive-colored, grass-like leaves grow from the base of the plant and are tough and wiry. The outside leaves clasp around the stem. The leaves have toothed margins, and grow about 35 inches long, getting shorter as they near the flowers, looking very much like a fan.
The flowers of bear grass grow on a stalk that can be 6 feet tall with many small flowers. Each flower is creamy white, and saucer shaped, and has a sweet
aroma. The lowest flowers bloom first, creating a tight knot of buds at the top. The entire flower looks a little like fluffy, upside down ice cream cone. Bear grass tends to flower in 5 to 7 year cycles. After the fruit sets, the plant dies. It reproduces by seed, and by sending out offshoots from its rhizomes.
Bear grass is found in open forests and meadows at sub alpine and low alpine elevations in the western United States. It is commonly found under alpine larch (Larix lyallii) and whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) stands on cold, rocky sites at upper timberlines.
Bear grass is a fire-resistant species that is the first plant to grow after a fire. Bear grass, and many other native plants, need periodic burns to produce strong, new growth. After a fire bear grass sprouts from its rhizomes which lie just under the surface. Light fires of short duration are best. Intense fires which linger in the same place for a long time will kill the rhizomes under the ground, and prevent the bear grass from growing back.
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