Another South Dakota picture — this one from a little damp fen tucked away in a much drier Custer State Park:
I have no idea what these little blue flowers are, but each bloom is at best an inch across.
Bluekeh
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A reminder of last spring
Seen along the National Mall in Washington, D.C.:
Now we’re just waiting for spring to show up in Colorado…
Lavender and green
Seen at the Yampa River Botanic Park in Steamboat Springs, Colorado:
Floral dream
Seen at the Yampa River Botanic Park in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Busy, busy, busy…
So many flowers, so little time:
Yellow skirt
Seen on our recent Rocky Mtn. road trip:
Captured at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center in Great Falls, Montana.
Milkweed
On the way home from our trip to Glacier N.P. and the Canadian Rockies, it so happened that we spent a night in Great Falls, Montana. Before we left the next morning, we stopped off to check out the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center — great displays, lots of hands-on stuff for the little one to play with. Oh, and all the landscape plants around the building are historically accurate — just what the Lewis & Clark expedition would have encountered on their way through.
Like these milkweed blossoms.
Sun on a cloudy day
Seen in front of the lodge in East Glacier, Montana:
On our Glacier National Park trip, we drove out to East Glacier to check out the storied lodge there — and were fortunate enough to actually have sporadic sunlight for our visit.
OK, we had sporadic rain too. And sporadic 40 mph gusts of wind…
But with such good scenery, we were happy to deal with the occasional annoying weather.
Lavender daydream
Seen in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
Quill
If you like photographing flowers, and happen to travel to the big island of Hawaii, you really owe it to yourself to make some time to walk through the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. Just a few minutes’ drive north of Hilo, it’s home to all sorts of beautiful tropical plants.
Here, for example, is a Pink Quill (tillandsia cyanea) bromeliad. It’s native to Ecuador, but apparently also available as a houseplant (although I doubt it’d do well for us here in Colorado):
More to come…