JKrotkov

@jkrotkov

Montana. Back-country hike, ski, etc. Weirdo underground house in the mountains. Pottery. #mtleg #mtpol. Motivated to Love Thy Neighbor (no exceptions). Quaker.

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JKrotkov@jkrotkov· 27d

Today's flowers are brought to you by #Pink. #photography #Montana #bloomscrolling

close up of a pink monarda flower fully opened, with its pistels pointing up and out like fireworks

close up of a pink thistle flower in a field of wildflowers. its petals shoot backward and its pistels shoot forward like a pincushion.

close up of a pink sanfoin flower in a field of sanfoin. The petals are illuminated and candy-striped

A white sego lily opens in a grassy field of lupine, clover, sage and other purple and pink flowers

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· 27d

Now that I look at your feed, I feel that I must make it clear that I specialize in pretty flowers, and its all about color!

four stark red tulip flowers lifting from a dark green understory, with their petals widely open and catching sunlight from above

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· 28d

I may be nothing more than an old, moss-encrusted forest troll, but I can still become utterly besotted with #Montana in July. #photography #bloomscrolling

a mountain meadow filled with tall blue, yellow, purple, pink and white wildflowers, with tall mountains and windmills in the distance.

a grassy meadow on rolling green hills, filled with yellow, white, pink andpurple wildflowers

close up of red and purple lupine flowers, in a grassy field filled with many more lupines and pink geraniums.

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 8

Stars fell on #Montana last night. #photography #hiking #bloomscrolling

long view of a greening plateau with lakes and scattered patches of snow, with a ledge of snow in the foreground and a puffy white cloud above mirroring the snow

in the foreground a long plateau with greening grass and many yellow, orange, white and blue wildflowers, with distant tall mountains with patches of snow

hikers eye view of a path winding through a grassy meadow studded with white, blue, pink and yellow wildflowers

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 7

Saw me some goats and wildflowers today on my hike. #Montana #hiking #bloomscrolling

wide grassy plain speckled with alpine wildflowers leads to distant, snow covered mountains. Hiker's feet in near foreground

A mountain goat with long tufts of shedding fur trailing away from her face, stands on a rock next to a glacier, with greening, snow-covered and craggy hills behind

A mountain goat mother with her fluffy white kid lick salt from rocks on a cliff side

meadow of wildflowers next to a glacial lake beneath rocky mountains streaked with snow

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 5

My kinda #parade. #Montana

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 3

thread of posts begins: doctor here. Giving an hour long speech in 107 heat is not recommended. Second poster: Shush. Third poster: I heard Obama did two hours

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 2

My excuse for being so slow on the trail was that it was steep, and I was tired. But really, I just had to keep stopping to admire the sun filtering through the fir forest, onto the orchids. #photography #hiking #Montana #bloomscrolling

A shaft of sunlight penetrates a dark fir forest to illuminate one branch festooned with lichen

by the side of a rocky path running through a forest stands two lady slipper orchids

tall red spikes of choral root flowers shoot from a dense forest floor, reaching into filtered sunlight

A brown and yellow speckled chocolate lily nods its head in the filtered sunlight of a forest floor

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 1

Fantastic day for a hike - not hot, not cold, sun, clouds, and wildflowers galore. #Montana #hiking

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 1

You know its rodeo season when a Brahma bull shows up in your back yard in #Montana.

a grey and black brahma bull stands on a lawn.

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jul 1

How the egg got so far from the nest, we will never know. #photography #birds #montana

A robin sits in a nest in a hawthorn shrub, well-camouflaged except for its stark yellow beak

a blue robin's egg on the ground looks unbroken, standing out starkly from the brown dirt path

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 30

Beam me up, Scotty! #Montana #weather

grassy hillsides with scattered clumps of conifer trees rise toward an ominous looking, circular cloud formation with bands of dark and light circles

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 28

#SilentSunday #photography #Montana

An old wooden door frame stands alone in a field, framing a view of corrals, rolling hills, light and dark green layers of trees and a cloudy sky. the wooden frame is festooned with bright yellow tufts of lichen.

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 27

Good morning, #Montana #bloomscrolling #photography

A long view through a grassy meadow filled with blue camasia and yellow potentilla flowers with a background of dark green forest. Insects are seen flying above and amid the flowers

close up of a pale blue camasia flower with yellow pistels arranged like an airplane propeller, with insects flying through the image

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 25

two people fishing from a boat in the green waters of DC reflecting pool, one fisher has caught a blue piece of fabric. The other says Ya gotta throw that one back, billybob, its federally protected.

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 22

#MountainMonday #photography #Montana

A rocky hilltop is clustered with patches of small yellow, white, pink and blue alpine flowers, with green forested mountains and valley in the distance under blue sky studded with puffy white clouds

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 21

Because today is the June #solstice, here is Eugene Alvin Villar's 2020 animated map of this solstice’s day-night cycle rendered using the #CahillConcialdi map projection. Grab the file here: https:// commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 21

#SilentSunday #bloomscrolling #Montana

ground-level view of multicolored, ground-hugging mountain flowers blooming amidst grey rocks at the edge of a cliff.

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 18

We've had two HARD #frosts in June, which set my outside garden back a bit, but its going better in the greenhouse. #Montana

a greenhouse with plants in pots lining the sides and hanging from the rafters

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 11

America has been vaccinating people for fifty years. If vaccines caused autism, America would have trains, okay? We would have so many trains." - Joe Allen

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 6

"hey, hey, Boo Boo! Wanna go rob some pic-a-nic baskets?!"

A person's booted foot placed next to two bear paw prints in the snow

A black bear looks at the camera from behind some grass and a tree branch

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· Jun 3

When life gives you lemons..... #MOntana #photography #bloomscrolling #birds

Yellow balsamroot flowers blooming in front of a dark fir forest with many horizontal, bare branches flecked with yellow lichen

Close up of a bright yellow goldfinch sitting on a wire fence, looking to the side, and showing a lemon-shaped yellow chest

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 27

Badlands of Central #Montana

Round white boulders sit upon eroded stack of silty grey soil before a background of green rolling hills

view from the ground up along the eroded pillars of light colored soil with boulders perched atop them. In the crevices can be seen rats nests and cliff swallow nests.

Eroded sandy grey soil has solidified into folded textures and shapes flowing down a cliffside. A Hiker's boot is seen atop the structure

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 26

Today's flowers of Central #Montana #photography #bloomscrolling

a bright yellow spider sits in the center of a white milkvetch flower

white flowers of false solomans seal plant balance on top of regular, leathery, dark green leaves

close up of an orange globe mallow flower with yellow pistils erupting from the center of the flower, and dark green, very hairy leaves curling intricately around the flower

a small foxtail cactus has a bright orange, red and yellow flower erupting exuberantly from its center

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 24

🎶 Cows in the pastures, 🪕 Moo, cows, moo!🎵 #Montana

a shaggy, black, long-horned, highland cross cow looks at the camera from a green pasture dotted with yellow flowers

A black cow peeks from the left side of the frame, looking toward a black calf in a pasture before a long series of grassy and wooded hills toward tall snowy mountains and blue sky filled with grey and white puffy clouds

a shaggy brown highland cross calf looks at the camera from a green pasture studded with yellow flowers

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 21

Today's Textures. #Montana #photography

close up of tiny, sticky cluster of poplar flowers hanging in a catkin

painting of thick brushy yellow orange and red twigs of willow and cornus bushes growing in front of a line of dark green pines

close up of a small mounding prairie plant with crenellated sage green furry leaves catching glistening drops of dew and frost

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 20

Layering up for #spring weather. #Montana #photography

gently rolling cropland in foreground is striped with layers of dark green emerging wheat, bright yellow ripening mustard and medium yellow/green hay fields, with snow capped mountains in the distance, under a pale blue sky layered with streaks of grey hued clouds

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 17

Two years ago on 20 may we got 3' of snow along with heavy winds knocking over so many trees the power was out for two weeks. Lets see what El Nino has in store for us this time.... #Montana #Weather

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 15

Beware the Ides of May #Montana #weather

a weather forecast showing snow and cold for the next week

JKrotkov@jkrotkov· May 10

That is some pig. Here's another.