Noticing, Neglected and New: Noticing

This begins a series of posts: Noticing, Neglected, and New. Today’s post is NOTICING.

Noticing

“Noticing”? Yes. Since my hiking is severely curtailed, I am walking with my eyes peeled for things I may not have noticed before. When hiking, one tends to focus on the next step. When simply walking, there is more of a meandering attitude.

Instead of heading up with neighbors, I drove up. This meant I could stop for photos, and it had been awhile since I photographed the bridge.

My favorite bridge (I wasn’t walking)
The gas pump at Silver City has been painted. (No, I wasn’t walking, but this is too brilliant to ignore.)
Evening light on the cottonwoods by the bridge at the end of the road is always worth noticing.
Another dam
Why is the grass squished here?
Arnica grows by water.
Nude buckwheat – the name makes my 6 year old neighbor giggle
Foxtail pine cones look like smaller Jeffrey pine cones.
The grasses are very tall.
Two foxtail pines with a red fir squishing its way between.
Trail Guy kindly and patiently meanders along with me instead of always burning up the trail.
Goldenrod is early this year. Those are corn lilies behind.

I found a new flower, then discovered it is in my now sold-out Wildflowers of Mineral King as an unknown flower at the end of the purples/blues chapter. (The book was published 5 years ago so I am allowed to forget some things.) It took 4 different attempts to get a single photo in focus, because my PHD* camera focuses on whatever it wants to focus on.

Columbine
Ranger buttons

Gooseberries

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  1. Today! I will be seeing many/most of the places you show here. Yay!

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