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I took many pictures of the Trilliums.
   
Wild Bleeding Heart flowers were beginning to show themselves.
 

As we drove south on Mountain Loop Highway, Mount Pugh said hello.

   

We stopped for lunch near Monte Cristo Lake, another favorite spot.

  

There appears to be a bumper crop of Skunk Cabbage this year! Its brilliant yellow blooms were everywhere, lining the roadsides, in the woods and growing in a ponds. I've never seen so much before.

 
Sweet little Yellow Wood Violets added their color too.

At Big Four the Forest Service, the Robe County Fire Department and the Snohomish Sheriff's Department were having their annual emergency practice. For a few seconds we thought it was real as folks sometimes need help at the Ice Caves.

   

An employee of the Sheriff's Department gets the helicopter's blades spinning.

  

Then it's up, up and away through the mountains.

 
We meandered partway along the trail, stopping to admire a Red Admiral butterfly.
 
Tiny mushrooms grew in piles of rotting wood.
 
Good-bye Big Four! See you soon for a picnic, I hope.
Today's trip illustrated that we never know what we'll find on our trips.
It was great to be out in the sunshine again.
  

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