Morning photo: Spring! » spring pasque

It's the first day of spring -- can the first wildflowers be far behind? In Summit County, the pasque flower is often the first to bloom, protected from frost by a thick coat of fuzz. I've seen them as early as the last week of March on the south side of Ptarmigan and Tenderfoot mountains.

It’s the first day of spring — can the first wildflowers be far behind? In Summit County, the pasque flower is often the first to bloom, protected from frost by a thick coat of fuzz. I’ve seen them as early as the last week of March on the south side of Ptarmigan and Tenderfoot mountains.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 5,571 other followers