Carpet Of Flowers

[markkee]

Last summer we stayed at Fish Lake in the Wallowa mountains of eastern Oregon for 2 nights because the locals said the fishing was great. We never caught a single trout.

However, the flowers were amazing. A forest fire ripped through the areas a few years ago and created some very fertile soil. I have never seen such an amazing display of flowers. It looked like a carpet. One of the nearby campers told me of the flowers. The following morning, I donned my running shoes and went for an hour long run through valleys carpeted with most beautiful flowers.

[rose]

Re: Carpet Of Flowers

Beautiful!!

[renodesertfox]

Re: Carpet Of Flowers

Ditto to what Rose said! Very nice!

[markkee]

Re: Carpet Of Flowers

Thanks for the comments. This place was really beautiful. The campsites cost about $3 a night. Every site was secluded with a view of the lake. There was a natural spring flowing into the lake that we used for our fresh water source. This is one of those places where I could spend the entire summer relaxing at.

I made a Youtube Video slide show of the flowers-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksXTm16LBQE.

One of the bonuses of this campsite was easy access to picking wild huckleberries. You really have to know where to look. You can be in a car driving by thousands of bushes and just thinking they are ordinary bushes. We got good at finding and picking wild huckleberries. I bring a GPS and start looking when I am at 5,000 feet elevation.

We picked several gallons of these delicious berries last summer. Wild blue berries like to grow in areas that have been strip logged.