After paddling on Shuswap Lake, I drove up the Bear Creek road to the Niskonlith hills area for a quick check on wildflowers in bloom.    The main avalanche lily bloom was diminishing, but there were wide swaths of balsamroot in bloom.    A few images are shared here.    Click an image for a lightbox view and a caption.

The photos include long bluebells (Mertensia longifolia), yellow glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum), western spring beauty (Claytonia lanceolata), upland larkspur (Delphinium nuttallianum), and arrow-leaved balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata).

upland larkspur

balsamroot

western spring beauty

long bluebells

glacier lily

woodland star

We will be seeing many of these later in sub-alpine zones at the end of spring into early summer.