Two Tickets to Paradise

Entering the park

A view of the mountain from just inside the gate

On the way up, a detailed view of the mountain
[Full Gigapan]

Pausing for a moment of reflection

Lunch at the Paradise Restaurant

Visiting the new Henry M. Jackson Visitor Center

The Visitor Center is fortified against the heavy winter snows
The old one ... wasn't

The mountain looms over Paradise

Life abounds in the highlands
A bee services this Avalanche Lily

Looking back down toward the Visitor Center

Closer and closer

Trekking

Buttercup

Aerial view from about 25,000'MSL taken a few days later

Let me Bee

Aaron's Beard (Updated 6/22/2007)

Aaron's Beard, Creeping St. John’s Wort (Hypericum Calycinum)


Aaron's Bee. This flower has a visitor.

Thanks to Jodie for help identifying this plant.

Threebee

Amazing what you see if you take a moment to look.


While out walking the dog today, I came upon this bee servicing a pair of dandelions.


She was so engrossed in what she was doing that she didn't even react when I got the lens within under an inch of her.