Flower Power

June 24, 2005

By Bump Diamond
Man About Town

    One of the many things Mammothists and other Eastsiders do is try to predict when and where the summer wildflowers will be in the high mountains.  Heaven knows it’s a short window, particularly this year, when there was a late winter and a cold spring.
    The shutterbugs really are into it.
    Jim Stimson, for example, predicted a glorious late summer and autumn.
    “Even down in Crowlely and Bishop, the blooms are very late this season, no doubt because of the cold spring," he said. "The high country could be interesting. I envision a mix of amber colors of autumn with the grasses, willow, huckleberry and the colorful floral displays of summer.”