Tag Archives: Lupines

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A virtual visit to the Mountain-part 1

August 10, 2020 XingfuMama 5 Comments

I am supposed to be at Mount Rainier right now, on our annual trip. But it got canceled. Every year is different, depending on when the snow melts, how warm the summer is and how much rainfall, you can have totally different flowers blooming.

These are from the year 2014. It was a cool, misty week and the lupines were amazing.

The valley carved out by the Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier.

Four point buck mule deer in a meadow of lupines.

Close-up of a clump of lupines growing in amonst heather.

A paved trail passing through meadows of lupines and magenta indian paintbrush near Paradise on Mount Rainier.

Meadow of blooming flowers near Paradise on Mount Rainier.

Meadow of lupines with jagged mountains and a cloudy sky.

Meadow of bear grass flowers with Mount Rainier in the background.

Wooley marmot ready to make a quick get-away into a stony cave.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Magic Mountain

August 29, 2019 XingfuMama 3 Comments

Better than any ride at Disneyland! The lupines along this portion of the trail were amazing.

These are some photos of the upper (higher elevation) portion of the lakes loop trail starting at Paradise. We had a misty but bright morning the day we hiked the loop.

For Son of a Beach’s Which Way Photo Challenge

Flowers

Just a little bit magic…or maybe a lot

August 18, 2019 XingfuMama 4 Comments

Leaves of an alpine lupine, sparkling with beads of water from a mountain mist.

The tiny drops of water from a misty morning make the lupine flowers and leaves sparkle.

I find blue alpine lupines to be a bit of magic. The true blue color makes me feel like the sky and earth come together in them…and the smell of a meadow full of them is truly divine.

A ring of blue alpine lupines in a meadow at Mount Rainier. — Much nicer than fungus!

This year we saw a fairy ring of them!

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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July Blue Squares-16

July 16, 2019 XingfuMama 1 Comment

Trees in mist in the background, the foreground is an alpine meadow full of blue lupines.

Alpine lupines sparkling with dew drops beside a trail at Mount Rainier National Park.

Tiny high elevation alpine lupine at Mount Rainier.

Alpine lupines at Paradise, in Mount Rainier National Park.

The Life of B’s July Blues-16

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A little mountain magic: blue flowers

August 14, 2018 XingfuMama Leave a comment

Lupines always seem impossible to me. The color seems like fairy magic, especially when lit by a stab of sunlight sneaking in through the trees.

I randomly grabbed a book to take on our recent trip: The Tolkien Reader and it contained an essay called “On Fairy-stories”, which is very long. Reading it affected the way I saw things.

Posted in response to Ragtag Daily Prompt #75: Blue.

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A Little Morning Magic

May 28, 2018 XingfuMama 2 Comments

In the morning light these lupines made me feel like I was in a fairy tale…or is that ferry tale?

Yesterday I awoke at the beach and the pups and I walked the beach while the sun was still low. One of dad’s neighbors has a wildflower (they are actually planted, lupines aren’t native to Vashon) garden.

I felt very far away from the stresses of the world.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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