Future Huckleberries and Shootingstar Flowers

On the way to view wildflowers along the Rocky Mountain Front the other day, I crossed over the mountains twice.  On a brief stop at an elevation of about 6000 feet, I briefly scoured the forest understory to see how the huckleberry bushes were doing. 

I found swaths of huckleberry bushes in bloom.

Shootingstar flowers were also coloring the more open places.

--Mitchell Hegman