When I was a little kid I remember looking at an ‘Arizona Highways’ magazine and being fascinated by the pictures of wildflowers growing along the roadsides.  I was amazed that flowers would grow, without anyone planting them or tending to them.  Our backyard/baseball field was pounded into dirt, with a few scrawny flowers growing along the edges.

I took these pictures this afternoon as Miss P and I were out for a stroll.

This plant had flowers ranging in color from deepest purple to lilac.

Purple and yellows predominate.

Which really lets the Painted Daisies stand out.

Milkweed is a favorite flower of butterflies, and it’s a lovely pink and white.

And Queen Anne’s Lace is a nice contrast to the green of the native grasses.

My Mom loved flowers.   I was talking to her once about how beautiful they were, and she asked me to send her some pictures.   So I documented every different wildflower I saw in one summer, and there are a lot of different ones.   I discovered that Colorado has highways that are just as beautiful as the ones in Arizona.