A few days ago while moseying along the river bank in early
afternoon I passed a small spring-fed pond that was above the
river and nearly hidden by willows, and as I did a small patch
of white caught my eye. Upon investigation of the place, I saw
that the white came from the three dime-sized petals of a
blossom that I somehow had not encountered before, Arumleaf
Arrowhead (Sagittaria cuneata), and for a time I enjoyed the
process of getting quite wet and muddy photographing another
small aquatic plant. Pleased with my discovery and photographs,
I then returned home. Yesterday upon a visit to the same
vicinity, the light that was filtered through the morning clouds
displayed a whole scene at the pond that I had missed before by
focussing only on the small white blossoms of the new plant
(which can be barely seen at the water’s edge at the bottom of
the photo). Spring Creek begins where a small cold spring
bubbles out of a mountain side in the TeePee – Spring Creek
roadless area just below 6,900 foot tall Big