Monkey flowers are not common in my corner of the Rocky Mountains. As a starting point, they like having their feet wet. This tends to limit their habitat to areas along mountain springs and creeks. I know of one small bouquet of monkey flowers that appears each summer in a pile of rocks at the center of a whitewater tumble of water high in the mountains above Lincoln, Montana.
I have found mostly purple monkey
flowers in my years of mountain wandering, but on a few occasions I have
chanced upon yellow specimens.
On a recent drive near Rimini with
Desiree, I spotted a stand of monkey flowers teetering above a spring alongside
the road. Naturally, I had to stop and
admire them.
Monkey Flowers
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