Flower Finds in Yellowstone--Day Two

Our plan was to hike with my sister Ingrid and her husband Michael the next day.  But Michael got very sick the night before, so Warren and I were on our own.  We headed up to the northeast corner of Yellowstone to hike up Slough Creek and fish there.

Sulfur Buckwheat turning pink:

Patrol cabin in the first meadow along Slough Creek, with Fireweed:

Pleated Gentian:

Walking through waist-high Groundsel and Goldenrod:

Grass-of-Parnassus without the fringe!

Another lovely moth on Goldenrod:

More Pleated Gentian:

Twinflower; very tiny on the forest floor:

Lots of berries getting ready for fall; Baneberry:

Buffaloberry:

Black Twinberry:

So I'm doing my flower thing while Warren is fishing.  I decided to take a rest by the creek and get some photos of him, and ended up with a pretty good sequence.  I'm so lucky the fish and the fisherman were both so cooperative!

A beautiful Cut-throat Trout:

Then we got an afternoon shower, and I decided to start heading back to get some more photos in the meadow we had crossed.  We were definitely in Sagebrush country:

 It was hard to capture all the color in the meadow from Asters, Goldenrod,Geranium, and leaves turning red:

Pasqueflower seedheads were a surprise:

These are the seedheads from Cut-leaf anemone, and they were opening to release seed:

More Pleated Gentian--all closed up without the sunshine:

Looking into a huge thistle plant right on the ground.

Slough Creek runs from the forest, through this dense meadow.  We had hiked around the meadow and into the forested area.

 Mom always called this Queen Anne's Lace.  It is also called Yampah, Wild Carrot or Perideridia:

Then we needed to get back down to Yellowstone Lake and see Ingrid and Michael, but the bison were causing all kinds of traffic jams!  There was one section that took us an hour and a half to go about one mile!!  Needless to say it was a long day and a late night!