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Midsummer at the Maroon Bells
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Tired from a long drive the night before, I slept
through both of my alarms and woke up 45 minutes late at my camp near Colorado's famous, 14,000-foot Maroon Bells. Frantically,
I threw my gear into my truck and raced up to Maroon Lake, barely arriving in time to set up my camera and catch this beautiful
sunrise. The graceful flowers in the foreground bear the inelegant name "cow parsnip." Eighteenth-century
English courtiers sometimes adorned themselves with this plant's close relative, Queen Anne's lace. Cow parsnip belongs
to the genus Heracleum, referring to the heroic demigod Hercules. Another common name, therefore, is Hercules' parsnip,
perhaps because the plant was once widely revered for its supposed medicinal properties. I have a whimsical suggestion
for another name that I think would be the most fitting of all because it would actually do justice to this appealing flower:
"Hercules' lace."
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