This is what I was really after when I got sidetrack with the birds

[NV Whino]

[elleng]

1. WOW again, Whino!

You got flowers!

[MuseRider]

2. Wow!

You just made my day. We don't have this yet but I cannot wait. Those are gorgeous! Both the photographs themselves and the subjects. I am very partial to the colors and composition of number 4. Nice job.

EDIT to add, did you see any bees?

[NV Whino]

3. Yes, saw some bees

And drove past some hives. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[MuseRider]

5. Great news!

Just wondering. We have always had plenty of bees until last summer when our drought was broken and we got tons of rain. I saw on or two rarely. Here is hoping there are the usual numbers this year.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Look at all those wildflowers!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Beautiful shots.

Are these in California? They almost look like Texas bluebonnets. Either way, getting some rain sure makes a difference.

[NV Whino]

7. Yep California

They are Texas blue bonnets, but out here we call them lupine.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. We have lupines, too,

But ours are taller and purple, not blue. They're very beautiful - I've got some growing in my gardens, but they are also wild here.

[NV Whino]

9. There were a lot of taller ones along side the road

They tend to be sort of clumpy, many stalks on a single plant, where the ones in the field are individual stalks. I've seen a few pink ones and occasionally yellow ones, but the most common are shades of blue and purple.

[2naSalit]

16. Lupines come in many varieties

some are specific to elevation and/or climate type. We have at least five types that I have seen up in the Rockies and the rum from white to pink, blue, blue and white, lavender, purple, and purple and white. Some are really low to the ground and some a pretty tall.

[scottie10]

10. Gorgeous!

Don't you just love spring? In the foothills of NC, we have had daffodils, now have red buds and thrift/flox, are beginning to have dogwood, which are all beautiful, but not in numbers anything like this.

[NV Whino]

12. I think our wild flowers have been biding their time, waiting for all this rain.

Best season we've had in years.

[Agschmid]

11. Another set of great photos!

[2naSalit]

13. I like them all

but especially the last one. Do you know what the pink flowers are? They kind of look like turfted lousewort... I love that name.... but the only place I find it around here is above 8,000ft.

[NV Whino]

14. Have no idea, but I'll check my local wild flower book.

[2naSalit]

15. Thanks.

I love large swaths of flowers like that. I'll have to scrounge up a couple pictures I got up at 9000ft a couple summers ago, endless fields of wildflowers for miles. It takes a while to get up there but you never want to leave during daylight because of all the flowers.