Goldilocks View

Exploring Deep Creek Wilderness Management Area for the first time, we followed obscure game trails into the hills. 

From Square Top Mountain, we had a great view of Strawberry Reservoir and the surrounding mountains.  The area is wide open and wild, with very little sign of human impace.

The butterflies were out.  Green ones,

and orange ones, flitting over the first spring flowers. 

Daisy cooled her belly on numerous snow patches remaining in the shade,

and swam in beaver ponds along the north fork of Deep Creek.   We saw deer and elk melting through the aspen,

and hawks, soaring and perching.
Goldilocks would have given the day her stamp of approval.  Just right.