More flowers from summer in the Sierra Nevada mountains to lighten up your winter.
I especially like this plant – I only saw this one example of it, small and gaudy on the mat of old pine needles. Anyone know what it is?
So many flowers.
One-seeded Pussypaws
Dandelion (with tiny beetle)
White-veined Mallow
White-veined Mallow
Western Columbine
Tough Little Birds 
Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon) …my favorite!
So delicate! They remind me of Shakespeare’s sonnet 65, which starts “Since brass, nor stone” and includes the lines, “How… shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower? / O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out/ Against the wrackful siege of battering days… ?” But clearly the tough little flowers were doing just fine.