Sugar Boy at our lunch spot taking it all in.

Straight Creek flows through the dense brush below our lunch spot. Someone must have been joking around when they named this Straight Creek because it is the opposite. It snakes this way and that across the valley

The view from our lunch spot.

Pussytoes

Velvety aspen on the hill side, before they have leaves.

Looking the other way from our lunch spot, near the top of the hill, is a very large tree, perhaps an old limber pine. The shape of the tree is unusual, more like a round apple tree than a pine tree.

This old tree survived the 2012 Fontenelle Fire that claimed many of the dead trees on the hill side.

A Harrier hawk on one of its many flights over Straight Creek.

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