WATER BORDERS 



Since no lake can be at the highest 

 point, it is possible to find plant life higher 

 than the water borders ; grasses perhaps 

 the highest, gilias, royal blue trusses of po- 

 lymonium, rosy plats of Sierra primroses. 

 What one has to get used to in flowers at 

 high altitudes is the bleaching of the sun. 

 Hardly do they hold their virgin color for 

 a day, and this early fading before their 

 function is performed gives them a pitiful 

 appearance not according with their hardi- 

 hood. The color scheme runs along the 

 high ridges from blue to rosy purple, car- 

 mine and coral red ; along the water borders 

 it is chiefly white and yellow where the 

 mimulus makes a vivid note, running into 

 red when the two schemes meet and mix 

 about the borders of the meadows, at the 

 upper limit of the columbine. 



Here is the fashion in which a mountain 



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