The camas are abloom!

Yellow-headed blackbird at rest in a field full

of Indian camas (Camassia quamash)

It's that time of year again and I made it down to the Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh on Thursday to catch them in all their glory. Posting a few photos along with a link to an article I did for a local website all about happenings in and around Sun Valley including information about things to see and do, local history and politics, sustainability, the music scene, photography, restaurants, merchants, and local artists and athletes.














Soldier Mountains reach to the sky

Lone death camas
(Zigadenus venenosus)

Local marsh inhabitants

Article written for Sunlisted.com

Fields of Blooms

Camas lilies and lupines are in full bloom all over Camas County.

Camas lily (Camassia quamash)
















Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, wrote of the camas lily in his journal in the spring of 1806: "The quawmash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete in this deseption that on first sight I could have sworn it was water."


























Yellow headed blackbird found in the Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh







































Wild lupine (Lupinus perennis)