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2naSalit

(93,558 posts)
11. I'm in!
Mon Jan 8, 2024, 03:23 PM
Jan 2024

When I was in grade school, there was a poem we had to memorize every September it seemed. I attended a over ten schools by the time I was in the sixth grade, military kid, and from second grade to the fourth grade, at every school, this poem was a feature early in the year. Later it was Robert Frost's "Stopping by a Snowy Wood" or whatever it is. Though I've thankfully forgotten the poem what always bothered me, from the beginning, was that I had no idea what a blue fringed gentian looked like and it wasn't until I moved to the mountains that I ever saw one.

Turns out, they grow in patches and fields/meadows! The largest patch I ever saw was at Divide Lake in Yellowstone NP.



Zooming in some



My entry





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2 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

I'm in. Bright blue feathers, I hope this fits the contest Walleye Jan 2024 #1
I'm in, too, mnhtnbb Jan 2024 #2
Ok, I've changed my photo yet again. mnhtnbb Jan 2024 #4
I'm in! HAB911 Jan 2024 #3
All right! I'm in. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2024 #5
I'm in. justaprogressive Jan 2024 #6
I'm trying to decide my entry Tom Kitten Jan 2024 #7
The theme is blue wave... Grumpy Old Guy Jan 2024 #8
Thank you for this, Grumpy Old Guy!!! Talitha Jan 2024 #9
That is wild! HAB911 Jan 2024 #12
Very appropriate. Callalily Jan 2024 #13
Spooky! Tom Kitten Jan 2024 #14
I'm in. Ocelot II Jan 2024 #10
I'm in! 2naSalit Jan 2024 #11
That would be justaprogressive Jan 2024 #15
I'm traveling edhopper Jan 2024 #16
Is that of Brown's Bluff? Hard to tell since it sinkingfeeling Jan 2024 #20
It was near edhopper Jan 2024 #21
I love this theme! ShazzieB Jan 2024 #17
My pic was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel T7 Behind the Aegis Jan 2024 #18
I really like your photo! Callalily Jan 2024 #19
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