May 8th Mountain Home Road Hike:
A small group of us met and then drove from Leavenworth over to the Blewett Pass Highway and took a road off of Mountain Home Road and then took a forest service road up to the top of the hills looking over Leavenworth and out east towards the hills of Cashmere.  It was a warm morning when we started and by the time we made it back it was very warm!!!!  We saw some great mountain flowers in full bloom and the willows were bellowing what looked like cottonwood seeds.  In the mountain breeze it was quite a sight and it was difficult to even breath without getting them up your nose!!!  We walked to the base of a radio tower and a few folks walked clear to the top of the hill that the tower sat on.  This was a three mile walk and we took a road down the other side of the hill that took us directly into the town of Leavenworth.  On that road there is a little private train track system that someone built and uses up in the hills.

Sitting in the shade at the bottom of the hill that went up to the Radio Tower...It was getting pretty warm already!!

Nice soft lavender colored flower

These little flowers stand about 8 inches off of the ground and grew in large clusters.....  some of them had a purple tint to them as well....

These were very fresh blooms!!!  As sharp in color as they come....  in many places there were fields of them....

Old snags have so much personality!!!

Cashmere Mountain

Drury Falls in the distance

Overlooking the town of Leavenworth