"Tweetys!" Karen texted me yesterday. "Let's hike Upper Pipeline trail tomorrow. Tweetys are blooming." She hikes every day.

Today we hiked 7.5 miles total on Upper Pipeline trail. We never saw so many wildflowers there before. Ninety-nine degrees in the valley (in town), it was 76 degrees in the mountains. Sweet.

Tweety's Lewisia is an extremely rare wildflower that only grows in North Central Washington. A succulent, Tweety's grows on rocky cliffs and rockslides, between 4,000' and 5,500' elevation, facing northeast. It can be destroyed by wildfires.

Tweety's Lewisia looks like Hawaii in the mountains!

There are many types of lewisia flowers. Tweety's Lewisia was discovered by Professor Tweety of Central Washington University. He named them after himself.

We also found rare yellow Mountain Columbine (Columbine is usually orange) and for the first time, white Clematis that is normally blue. Looks like paper lanterns.

"I'm hungry," I said two hours after lunch. "You didn't eat enough carbs," Karen replied. She was right. For lunch, I brought fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and a few crackers.

Famished when I got home, I boiled whole grain noodles. "Now don't wolf this down," I told myself. Tomorrow will make muffins.