There are spring flowers, and then there are summer flowers.  The higher elevations of the Sierras, above 6000 feet, provide a home for a vast number of colorful flowers that show forth in summer.  While the poppies and lupine begin to fade, the leopard lilies, penstemons, coneflowers, columbine, western azalea, and violets come forth.

With these summer flowers come dozens of species of butterflies to pollinate them.  Photographing  butterflies is an art form, ducking and following butterflies through the bushes hoping they will sit for just a few seconds, or at least hover long enough to be shot.

I have at least a dozen books and have bookmarked two dozen websites that specialize in identifying wildflowers, and even then it's difficult.  This is a great, easy safari where we shoot close to the roads.
 
Reservations

We meet in Three Rivers located on Hwy 198 just west of Sequoia National Park at 7am.  We will shoot our way through the park and through Sequoia National Forest.
 

California Coneflowers and Bee