MDC

 

I was out with VSO late last evening at the Breaks.  We came across this little beauty (above), but couldn't quite remember if we'd identified it before.  When we got home we found it in the book.  A mountain death camas (Zigadenus elegans), so named because it is highly poisonous.  Eating just two of the root bulbs—how do we know this?—can be fatal.  At any rate, we kept our hands in our pockets and survived the encounter.  And, hey, look, clouds (below).  We've not had a wetting rain in nearly 70 days, so to have a few moist clouds was a big change.  It even briefly tried to drizzle.