The national parks portfolio . brown when it first appearsbecause it carries sediment and powdered rock which, however, it soon deposits,becoming clear. But this brief picture of the Mount Rainier National Park would miss itsloveliest touch without some notice of the wild-flower parks lying at the base,and often reaching far up between the icy fingers, of Mount Rainier. Above the forests, writes John Muir, the celebrated naturaHst, thereis a zone of the loveliest flowers, fifty miles in circuit and nearly two mileswide, so closely planted and luxurious that it seems as if nature, glad to makea
The national parks portfolio . brown when it first appearsbecause it carries sediment and powdered rock which, however, it soon deposits,becoming clear. But this brief picture of the Mount Rainier National Park would miss itsloveliest touch without some notice of the wild-flower parks lying at the base,and often reaching far up between the icy fingers, of Mount Rainier. Above the forests, writes John Muir, the celebrated naturaHst, thereis a zone of the loveliest flowers, fifty miles in circuit and nearly two mileswide, so closely planted and luxurious that it seems as if nature, glad to makean open space between woods so dense and ice so deep, were economizing theprecious ground and trying to see how many of her darlings she can gettogether in one mountain wreath—daisies, anemones, columbine, erythroniums,larkspurs, etc., among which we wade knee-deep and waist-deep, the brightcorollas in myriads touching petal to petal. Altogether this is the richestsubalpine garden I have ever found, a perfect flower Photograph by Curtis & Miller Mount Adams from Mount Rainier—Forty Miles Southward
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