Summer Wildflowers

After several travel-oriented newsletters, I’m taking a break and returning to what you could call my roots, landscape and wildlife photography. 

Summer hasn’t been my favorite season. Not that it’s a bad season – long days, easier access to the high country, and wildflowers all make a strong case for it being a great season – but rather it’s not just one I look forward to in the same way as the others. Fall has its own colors and cooling temps. Winter has ski season and fresh coats of snow on the mountains. Spring has color and warmth. Summer just hasn’t excited me in the same way (the heat doesn’t help). 

But then I get out in the mountains and enjoy the cool mornings, fields of wildflowers, and perfect afternoons in the shade. It’s somehow easier to forget these things as if summer’s best features are a little more subtle. And when I do, I realize summer, like the other seasons, feels fleeting and I wish you had planned a few more weekends out before the next season comes along.

All photos from July 2024. Taken near Crested Butte, Colorado.

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