#nativeplants Arrow-leaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) rising up from newly established colony on rocky, recently disturbed (clear cut) ridge. At 1350m #WALLOWAS #OREGON Nite temp -10C
Read overview by #MONTANA Native Plant Society pdf [161Kb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/balsamo...
#phenology
#foto STINK CURRANT (Ribes bracteosum) buds opening in vernal snowmelt stream 1450m, mid-MAY
Amazing, in a traditional Winters,
these currants are under 2m of snowpack
from NOVEMBER to MAY, water
of the small mountain flowing continuously.
Amazing…
#nativeplants #WALLOWAS #OREGON
#phenology The TURKEY VULTURES are back! (Cathartes aura)..l #WALLOWAS #OREGON
I have 6 mature birds circling now
overhead…..at 1330m…they “know” me,
at least, that’s what I TELL myself…
They follow me while I’m out running…
I “talk” to them with my bone whistle.
#foto WIKIPEDIA #avian #wilderness
#foto #backpacking 🌲Whitebark Pine Country & EAGLE CAP, the motionless center about which turns the great energy wheel of the #WALLOWAS A natural MANDALA
RESOURCE PAGE at picture-poems.com/whitebarks
#OREGON #trekking #philosophy #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️ [cache bike @ State Park WALLOWA LAKE] #wilderness
#design SAGEBRUSH BUTTERCUP (Ranunculus glaberrimus) at
1300m
The petals have a smooth outer layer & a pigmented lower layer w/ an air gap in btwn. Light reflects off the inner surfaces & combines w/ pigment reflection, causing specular (mirror-like) shine.
#biomimicry #WALLOWAS #wildflowers #OR
thread (1) #phenology SAGEBRUSH BUTTERCUP (Ranunculus glaberrimus) 1350 m
The petal has a smooth outer layer & a pigmented lower layer with an air gap in between. Light reflects off the inner surfaces and combines with pigment reflection, causing specular (mirror-like) shine.
#biomimicry #WALLOWAS
#phenology MOUNTAIN Snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus) leafing out now 1330m in open montane, Northeast #WALLOWAS #OREGON.
It’s partner, Common Snowberry (S. albus) moves bit slower in time, from bud-break, flowering, and holding onto its fruit--an important wildlife food--in Fall
#nativeplants
#poem EVERY TIME A BOMB FALLS…
#foto Friends, the HUND family, w/ Isaiah
& Juniper learning to eat YAMPAH Root
(Perideridera bolanderi) at HEARTBREAK
Meadow 1450m #WALLOWAS #OREGON
#nativeplants #wildflowers
#PoetsWithoutBorders #poetry End the war of aggression on #CUBA & #IRAN 🌎☮️🙏
#poetry TIMES 20: All #RILKE 20 of my favorite English tr. from the German, recorded off-grid, in the natural soundscapes of the rugged #WALLOWAS #OREGON
“POETRY? The one thing humans do
that makes the rest of NATURE jealous… . “
mp3 [51Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/rilke_20...
🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵
#phenology 🌿Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) appeared today III.21.2026 at 1330m #Wallowas Northeast #OREGON A full month ahead of #climate average
A signature ephemeral of montane Spring!
Wildly abundant. Entire plant is wonderfully
edible
#wildflowers #nativeplants #wildcrafting #foto
#phenology FIELDNOTES III.18.2026….Recorded on foot—no snow at 1300-1600m—a male chorus of Mountain TOADS
(Bufo borealis) out a month early…
An overview of current HEAT DOME
mp3 [23Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/fieldnot...
#nativeplants #foto INDIAN POTATO (Claytonia
lanceolata)
#OREGON #WALLOWAS
#trekking #Whitebarkpine 🌲 are a keystone species. In the #WALLOWAS since 1850 they’re migrated up 250m in elevation to abt 2200m A HOTTER DRIER climate is pushing them UP & OFF the mountain.
Luckily, they have ESP now. And it’s mostly
an official #wilderness tree. #foto 2300m
& 2550m
#OREGON
#design Barestem Biscuitroot (Lomatium nudicaule) marvelous leaf venation pattern
After the inevitable collapse of rural
N. American straight-line-grid barbed-wire
cow towns, think of #biomimicry networked
communities designed like this!
The #WALLOWAS are a Lomatium hotspot
From 600 to 2300m
#OR
#phenology Spreading DOGBANE (Apocynum androsaemifollium) Fruit: Pairs of narrow 5-to 10cm-long follicles split open to release seeds with silky hairs
W/ present snow drought at 1300m
the seeds are now everywhere
floating along w/ the warm afternoon
updrafts
#WALLOWAS #OREGON #foto #nativeplants
#trekking 🌲 LIMBER PINE (Pinus flexilis) closely related 5-needle species to #Whitebarkpine on the remarkable MARTIN BRIDGE LIMESTONE of the #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON. At 2650m
LIMBERS are rare in the #WALLOWAS
But they form a unique old-growth (1000 yrs)
community at CRATERS OF THE MOON
#IDAHO
#nativeplants SULFUR-FLOWERED BUCKWHEAT (Eriogonum umbellatum) at 2200 meters, dry southwest exposure....September aspect
Tight, low cushion, short wooly hairs on nearly
succulent spoon-shaped leaves...a marvel
of subalpine adaptation...
#OREGON 🌲 #EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWAS #wildflowers
#booksky TIMES 20: All #RILKE 20 of my favorite new English translations from the German, rec. in the #WALLOWAS #OREGON
#POETRY? The one thing humans do
that makes the rest of NATURE jealous… .
mp3 [51Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/rilke_20...
🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #poem #poesia #Gedicht #soundscape
#trekking 🌲LEARNING to speak #Whitebarkpine...
In the #WALLOWAS #EagleCapWilderness, when your
altimeter hits 2200m., start looking for this gestalt:
full rounded form, upward turning branches. Contrasts
sharply w/ more narrow Spruce & Fir. Upclose,
look for bundles 5-needles.
#backpacking #foto
#photo IMNAHA Canyon, North #WALLOWAS
The IMNAHA is 80km of spectacular free-flowing river;
It originate above 2500m below CUSSICK MT
& joins the SNAKE at DOUG BAR at 400m;
It’s perhaps the Eagle Cap‘s best chance
for salmon recovery… . .
#trekking #landscape #foto #OREGON #poem #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️
#NativePlants Pink Fairies (Clarkia pulchella) skyview bit.ly/hgmbjg
One of our most beautiful annual #Wildflowers,
not just in the #PacificNorthwest,
but anywhere. And w/ so much history!
Imagine #Sacajawea showing this to
Lewis & Clark:– for the very first time... . .
#OREGON #WALLOWAS
🌲 Sentinel #WHITEBARKpine snag w/ #OREGON blue sky at 2500m... #EagleCapWilderness
Beauty in Death?
Powerful ascending spiral,
dead before William Clark had seen
his first Nutcracker…
NOTE there’s not a trace of Mt Pine Beetle…
Composite cores would yield a 1000 yr
#CLIMATE story. 🌲
#WALLOWAS
#Wildflowers #foto 🌿 CUSHION BUCKWHEAT (Eriogonum ovalifolium) & DEEP WATER, a prose poem bit.ly/QNmdNH
The "SINGULARITY" is near!
Crow asked Coyote,
“Can Computers think?”
And Coyote said,
”Just as airplanes can fly!”
#WALLOWAS #OREGON #trekking #climateBREAKDOWN #poetry #nativeplants #AI 🌎
#backpacking 🌲 Whitebark Pine Country & #EagleCapWilderness the motionless center about which the great energy wheel of the #WALLOWAS turns. A natural #MANDALA
My WHITEBARK RESOURCE PAGE, w/ books, videos, photographs, etc. at picture-poems.com/whitebarks 🌲
#OREGON #trekking #philosophy #photo
#wildflowers 🌿 Rosy & White Spiraea (S. splendens & betulifolia) In #WALLOWAS, white "clicks OUT" & rosy "clicks IN" at ± 1600 m.
Two signature beauties of the #OREGON high country;
How are they changing w/ #ClimateBREAKDOWN?
#phenology #nativeplants #trekking #EagleCapWilderness #climatesky
#nativeplants 🌿 LUPINE*Lupinus arbustus) & YARROW leafing out where I’m sitting….six weeks ahead of climate norm
South-facing, 1275m) among ARROWLEAF NALSAMROOT…
Normally, I would be on 1m snow & skis ⛷️ here
#WALLOWAS #OREGON #snowdrought #climateBREAKDOWN
🌲 #WhitebarkPine BEAUTY IN DEATH? There's something timeless abt the granite gray of a long-dead STONEPINE, one w/ its rock, so steadfast in our world of harsh change
In the #ALPS, the tight-grain wood
of whitebark is used in carving crucifixes
& pagan WILDMAN masks.
#WALLOWAS #trekking #OREGON 🌲
#photo RIGHT NOW, where I’m camped at 1330m in #OREGON looking Southeast over Snake River Country into #IDAHO. Dramatic #ClimateBREAKDOWN fieldwork opportunities w/ current snow drought.
Not that I understand what’s
going on. I just know that I’m
right in the middle of it.
#WALLOWAS #skiing ⛷️
#ClimateBREAKDOWN Alpine Ecosystem Destabilization and Cryospheric Transformation in the Bormio Corridor (1200–3000 m) soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...
🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #SwissStonepine 🌲 #Whitebarkpine #ALPS #Wallowas #OREGON
#climatesky CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Resonance, Jetstream 2.0 & Whitebark 🌲 Country, by Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...
🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #ClimateBREAKDOWN #WALLOWAS #OREGON
#climatesky READING: Atmospheric Resonance & the Evolution of Jetstream 2.0: Synoptic Dynamics, Northeast Oregon Topography, and the Fragility of High-Elevation Mutualisms
pdf [300Kb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/jetstre...
#Klimakris #WALLOWAS #Whitebarkpine 🌲 #OREGON #wilderness #ClimateBREAKDOWN
