THE MILKWEED AND THE BUTTERFLY FIR TREES (691-3818)

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A couple mothers of rocky mountain elk look after their young up on the alpine tundra during august in Rocky Mountain National Park

This was a beautiful and remarkable landscape scene to have witnessed and photographed

While in the creek

It is a perennial herb with white to bluish-white flowers

THE MILKWEED AND THE BUTTERFLY FIR TREES (691-3818)After photographing the wildflowers with the misty sunrise scenes at Wildflower Park, I focused on some of the wildlife in the park. I switched out the nikkor 105mm macro lens from photographing the swamp milkweed plant to my nikkor 300mm f4 to capture any wildlife that would come close enough. I was coming up to an area of the park with some common milkweed along the trail and was in high hopes of seeing a monarch butterfly or two. My high hopes came