Salsa came too...
And, like everywhere we went on our vacation, there were tons of wildflowers. I've never seen so many flowers in our mountains! There was so much color! Much of the trail was lined with these...
There were big patches of flowers that look like snapdragons. Check out the little tuft of hair inside...
There were golden flowers...
Brushy looking flowers...
Berries...
Itsy bitsy...
and teeny tiny flowers...
We only saw two of these the whole day. They remind me of a couple flowers I saw in Colorado that were very similar. Amazing...
I love the colors in this one...
These covered the ground like carpet in some places...
Check out all those ruffles in this close up...
We even saw stars...
Or...maybe flowers...in some of the trees that were cut down (they may have died from the beetle infestation). We'd never seen this shape/pattern in logs before...
There were so many flowers that I can't possibly show all of them...even patches of deep purple ones! The sky was blue and clouds slowly rolled in as we hiked, giving us a little shade from the hot sun. We had lunch at the top of the peak with a 360 degree view all around of mountains, the lake, the desert. And, we were treated with a magic dance of beautiful butterflies that were only at the top. This one eventually landed and I got a picture. Isn't it gorgeous?!...
It was a fun day and a great workout. We hiked almost seven miles with over a thousand feet of elevation gain. The scenery was amazing. And, the time together...my husband, daughter and I...and Salsa...priceless!
2 comments:
What a lovely day! Days like that are so rare and I'm glad you got to savor this one to the fullest.
So, Salsa has a backpack, too, eh?
spectacular photographs! Almost National Geographic quality. The flora in different parts of the world never ceases to amaze me.
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