Bighorn Yellow Balsamroot

I took an hour while driving the Cloud Peak Skyway from Buffalo, Wyoming to Tensleep, Wyoming last spring.  One of the few opportunities I had last spring/summer to shoot any wildflowers was on the top of Tensleep Canyon.  The Bighorn Mountains west of Buffalo, Wyoming were covered with yellow balsalmroot flowers--they were everywhere, seemed like and I could see places higher up in the mountains that were just huge meadows of them. 

Later that summer, those same meadows and mountainsides were purple with wild lupine but I never had an opportunity to shoot them at their peak.  Anyway, I save my wildflower shots for the dead of winter--mainly to remind me that this eternal winter won't last forever.

Enjoy!

My poet friend Alec  wrote a haiku for this shot:

a crowd of blossoms

dancing in their breeze-stirred joy.