It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is Curly-Cup Gumweed. It is in the Asteracaea-Sunflower family and usually blooms June through September and I found this at the very end of September. Many Great Plains tribes used this plant medicinally to treat various things like coughs, colds and stomach aches. The root can grow up to 6 feet making it very drought hardy.
Today's bird is a Killdeer. I usually see them in the Spring but this year I have spotted them at various times, or heard them, all year. This photo is an older one taken in the Spring They get their name because their call sounds like they are saying that.
Happy Monday and happy new week! Starting off the week with some, seemingly, glowing Morning Glory flowers.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is from the special train that the Cumbres & Toltec was running for Colorado's 150 birthday. 168 and 463 were pulling in to take on water at Sublette on the way to Osier Station for the lunch stop.
I have an old car that just got running again after sitting for a few years. I want to take it on a trip so I have been taking it out for drives around sunset lately to make sure things are good with it and also to enjoy the view. This is the sunset at Milford Lake a little over a week ago.
It's Friday, TGIF! My Sea Oats Grass is starting to turn color for autumn. It's looking photogenic as always and had some lovely bubbly bokeh in this image. Sharing it for today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious here on the Blog!
While I was out on a bike ride this past week, I spotted this gal in the road. Why did the Mantis cross the road? 😁 She let me take a few photos. I debated on whether or not to make sure she went into the grass but decided she was close enough to the edge and it wasn't a well traveled road so I left her alone. When I went by the same spot the next day I could tell she had safely made it off the road. She was big, about 6 inches long.
