A natural array of Van Gogh sunflowers (Rydbergia grandiflora) 1200 feet high. Scroll down for more views
of these Old-Man-of-the-Mountain flowers. Click on a photo to see their setting. It takes several favorable years
for these plants to build up enough nutrients to create their extremely large flowers by alpine tundra standards.
These sunflowers bloom once and then die. They most always are found facing eastward.
Monk-on-the-Mountain contemplating blooms. Click on photo to see the lake views from this here.
