June Flowers on the New Trail

This is the new trail that leads north from Jumbo Saddle.  Today we saw fields of lupine 

 

and some gaillardia

(Gaillardia aristata)

 

and bitterroot

(Lewisia rediviva), 

the Montana state flower.

Planting Grass

makes us remember words from "Solitude," in Walden:



















We needed to replant blue grama, sheep fescue, prairie junegrass, and some taller bunchgrasses in various places around the yard, so we repeated our process from four years ago: weed, re-seed, spread Eko Compost, roll to press in the seed, and cover steep sections with jute netting.

Meanwhile, the dicentra that first emerged from the ground around
April 3 have grown to be shrub-sized.