En route from Vancouver to New Denver along Highway 3 ("the Southern route"), coming up into Richter Pass from the Similkameen Valley, Doco and I came upon a hillside ablaze with yellow-orange flowers. The "balsam-orhiza" or balsam root - used by the Salish and Kootenai native peoples for food and medicine, the seeds for oil. Part of the sunflower family.
Doco found a place to pull over,
and I scrambled up a steep bank with the help of sage bushes to get into the flowers.
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| balsam root in the foreground, sage in the background ... |
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| … their perfect day |
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