Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Pictures from Snowbird

I finally remembered to put up those pictures from my conference in Snowbird, UT. (And just for anyone who's curious my talk on Arachis - peanut - relationships went really well) I've attempted to identify the plants in the pictures (with help from Janet Wingate's Rocky Mountain Flower Finder"), though I'm not very good at it. Please let me know if I've misidentified something. Hope you enjoy them.

Here's a view of some of the mountains making up Little Cottonwood Canyon, where Snowbird Resort happens to be.

A cute little butterfly on some Caraway (Carum carvi)

There's the resort... I thought I got pretty far up the trail... but I think completed less than half.

I'm having trouble figuring this one out. I know that it's commonly found in areas the are disturbed, and seeing as it's growing in a resort area it's happy here.

White Columbine, taken with my new baby! the f1.8 lens :-)

The little creature in the middle of this picture would be a potgut, basically like a squirrel without the bushy tail.

Here's a zoomed in view of it. Isn't it cute?

Here's another picture I too with the f1.8 lens. This is a pink paintbrush flower (Castilleja rhexifolia)

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