One Of Our First Occupations In The
Morning Is To Take The Animals Down To Water, And Afterwards To
Picket Them In Amongst The Long Grass, Growing In Great Profusion
And Height During The Short Summer On All The Foot Hills And
Wherever There Is An Open Space.
The first afternoon we were up
here we went for a ride round Imogene basin, and were delighted
with the wild flowers, which are quite innumerable - columbine,
phloxes, blue gentian, dandelions, harebells, vetches, and fifty
other species.
E - - picked a good many, and hopes to draw them
for the benefit of you all at home. The flowers shoot up almost
before the snow has melted, and make the most of their short
existence which lasts about two months and a half. We tasted the
"bear berry," which grows as a bush and has a round brown berry,
quite bitter, but, as its name shows, is much appreciated by the
bears, who come any distance to get it.
* * * * *
September 4th.
We are enjoying this mountain life; the weather is all we can
desire, and we are in the most robust of health. We live almost
entirely out of doors, sketching all the morning, in the
afternoons making expeditions either into some of the mines, or
over a mountain-pass; and for "tender-feet" the name given to all
new-comers, are pronounced to be good mountaineers; but our ponies
and mules are so sure-footed and pleasant that we follow any
trail, however narrow and uneven, with the greatest confidence.
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