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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2007, 08:45:13 pm »
You mean they grow wild?  :o

I took this picture of our native irises at our neighborhood clubhouse today. They may be the same variety as grow at Lightning Flat.



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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2007, 10:31:02 am »
You mean they grow wild?  :o


Yes, the irises and many other varieties grow wild in these mountains, giving quite a few photographers their livelihood!!

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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2007, 01:21:03 pm »
Yes, the irises and many other varieties grow wild in these mountains, giving quite a few photographers their livelihood!!

Wow! I've never heard of wild iris before. Must be beautiful. ... :)
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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2007, 09:32:58 am »
You'll see soon.

Here's a lovely bunch of flax that was growing near Lyons at a musician's cabin.



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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2007, 10:38:55 am »
Flax is pretty. We had some in the garden back home for a couple of years.  :)

You'll see soon.

Here's a lovely bunch of flax that was growing near Lyons at a musician's cabin.




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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2007, 03:10:30 pm »
So many things are blooming now! Here's a shot of our Yucca, also called soapweed or Spanish bayonet.

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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2007, 06:40:05 pm »
Here is the meadow by my house. I'm going to take a cue from Roland and see if you can identify the four kinds of wildflowers in this picture:

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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #27 on: June 13, 2007, 06:46:54 pm »
How pretty!

My favorite summer flowers back East here are orange day lilies and Queen Anne's lace.

Here is the meadow by my house. I'm going to take a cue from Roland and see if you can identify the four kinds of wildflowers in this picture:


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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2007, 11:00:36 pm »
Here is the meadow by my house. I'm going to take a cue from Roland and see if you can identify the four kinds of wildflowers in this picture:


I can!
Theres the yellow kind, the littel blue kind, purple ones and some pretty orange ones!
Well, I ain't no botanist but I know they're pretty!  ;D
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Re: Spring Has Finally Come to the Rocky Mountains!
« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2007, 09:52:21 pm »
LOL, Lee, you deserve a prize...of some kind!

I was walking the dog today and saw a field of shooting stars, which I haven't seen in several years!

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