Every year I tell myself that I will not take more
photographs of the bitterroot when they bloom in June. I have—without exaggeration—many dozens of
quite lovely photographs of them from previous years. If you shuffled though the photographs, you
might even successfully argue that most of them look alike.
I tend to photograph the bitterroot in pairs. I usually do not center them in the frame.
Well, the bitterroot bloom is at its peak all around
my home right now. For the last week or
so I have successfully fought the urge to photograph them; with the exception
of a few random cell phone pictures I snapped and sent to my dearest.
Yesterday, I caved-in to my impulse to photograph the
flowers in earnest. Is it possible to have
too many beautiful flowers, I asked myself?
I streaked out into the prairie on the south side of my home (with my
digital SLR) and began taking pictures. The
bitterroot are too conspicuous to ignore.
They became the State flower of Montana for good reason.
Posted today is an off-center pair of bitterroot blossoms.
--Mitchell
Hegman
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