Spring wildflowers,
carpet the desert,
with fragile blooms.
Some live only for a day.
No matter how brief,
they fill the arid desert,
with the joyful beauty,
of Life!
Cheers to you from the fragile desert~
Spring wildflowers,
carpet the desert,
with fragile blooms.
Some live only for a day.
No matter how brief,
they fill the arid desert,
with the joyful beauty,
of Life!
Cheers to you from the fragile desert~
Stunning! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you more for appreciating!
Oh man these are beautiful. Such sweet eye candy.
Awwww, so glad! We need nature’s eye candy everyday~
What a splendid array of colour and such delicate fragility! A spectacular array, thanks Cindy. 🙂
We live in such a beautiful natural world. Thank you so much for appreciating my friend~
I like that alien look round flower with fur on it… So detailed
I do too! It is often not just the flowers on a plant that are interesting. The tiny hairs you can’t really see with the naked eye are so alive and wonderous. Thank you for noticing~
Gorgeous
The desert has this beauty which is so unusual. I have been spending time in Anza since I could walk. I like it best in the summer when the temp gets to around 118 degrees F. There are no people just this amazing desert ecosytem with all sorts of living things. There used to be horny toads (almost extinct) which I would hold, and sidewinders which I didn’t, trapdoor spiders with their silken holes, roadrunners who play with you, and coyotes whose scratches I would look for as they dug up cactus to drink the liquid in their roots. We live on an amazing planet, which I do not need to tell you.
We have horny toads here.
You are right, we do live on an amazing planet, which I do need you tell me .. and you do, over and over again.
Thank you for all you have done.
amazing:) we cant pay our gratitude even for one blessing that God has provided us with countless. Thank you God for beautifying this planet for human beings
Yes! I feel just as you do. So amazing and incredible. The beauty of this world is everything and more than we could have asked for or thought of. Simply miraculous. A reflection of the face of God. <3
true Cindy, thank you for understanding, blessings
<3
Beautiful desert flowers. Thank you for the photos.
Thank you for liking them~ <3
Beautiful thanks Cindy. I especially like the third one which reminds me of rock rose.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
That is a Desert Globe Mallow and it is reminiscent of a rock rose. Good eyes!
Magnificent images and words – thank you:)
Awww, thank you more!
The desert is alive and well. How glorious.
Yes! There is something remakable about the spring bloom in such a harsh environment. Cheers to you Ann~
Beautifully expressed. Fragile desert blooms…. living for a day, but still capturing hearts with their profusion of colour
Their brief life adds necessary beauty to our world!
Yes, so true
I love you talent for fragile BEAUTY!
Awwww, so kind! Thank you~
Wow what magnificent captures….
Thanks my friend and hope all is well with you. You will know when you see a photo of an ellie or lion popping up here, that I am knocking around in your backyard!
Thank you for this wonderful burst of colour and light into my life.
Alison
Awwww, if it brightened your day Alision, than I am very glad I posted! <3
Beautiful desert flowers!! Wonderful way to celebrate spring! Hugz Lisa and Bear
Hugz & thanks back to you guys~
Oooh the California deserts and their wildflowers have been high on my places to see. One day… Cindy, you visit and photograph places, plants, and animals I want to see so frequently that it seems like you can read my mind!
Maybe we have some sort of psyhological symmetry. It wouldn’t surprise me. I have noticed it too! <3
I love the beautiful flowers you have posted.Thank you Cindy.
And I so value you, my dear friend Ranu! <3
What a nice manner to begin this week ! Thank you Cidy, they are so beautiful – and the bee s a good new in herself !
Happy Monday to you my friend and our fuzzy-buzzy-bees are always good news aren’t they!
Such brilliant colours so beautifully captured help to put life and living into perspective.
I agree with you Russel. They help me put my life in the perspective of something so much greater and I am not surprised you connect with this too my friend~
Beautiful – I can’t wait to see spring come here too 🙂
I can well imagine. It has been a very hard winter for so many~
I love to see honeybees in blooms. 🙂
Yes! One of my favorite things to see~
The beauty to be found in the desert constantly amazes me. Wish I had never left. Hugs! 😀
I have seen it covered in snow. That was special!
Wow carpets of beauty thank you Cindy
Thank you more for the kind appreciation~
Lots of beautiful blooms!
It has been an excellent bloom this year because we finally had some rain!
Lovely shots!
Mil grazi!
I’ve wandered through enough southwestern deserts in the springtime to feel like these flowers are old friends. Thanks Cindy. Curt
They are and I know just what you mean!
These beautiful blooms are giving me spring fever for sure!
Spring fever is always good! 😉
Wonderful pictures 🙂
I feel a haiku coming on, looking at those fragile pale pink flowers.
oooooh, I can’t wait to read it!
Along with my haiku, may I post the pink flower picture, of course accrediting it to you — possibly next Monday?
I would be very honored and thank you so much! <3
Brilliant! Thank you, Cindy 🙂
Thank You Cindy , This is simply Beautiful 🙂 Happy Monday!!
Happy Monday and thank you my friend~
They look like hellebores. Very pretty flowers
There is a resemblance isn’t there~
Beautiful photos, Cindy! I’m amazed at the delicate beauty that exists in such a harsh climate.
No matter how many times I have seen it, I remain amazed!
Hi Cindy. The desert is certainly a different world. But I was surprised to see flowers you would expect were growing in a valley. Very interesting and beautiful <3
These flowers bloom in spring when there has been winter rain, and only for a brief time. But while they are here, they put on an amazing show!
I have heard the same thing happens in Greenland during the summer unfortunately, with a strong increase of mosquitoes 🙂
Beauties each and every one…
Very pleased you think so my friend~
But all the flowers are blooming beautifully
They are! And in such a harsh environment. It is remarkable~
Gorgeous stunning flowers! A nice way to start my Monday!
So pleased Laura and Happy Monday!
These photos brought back great memories. Many years ago, when I was teaching Intro to Biology at UC Irvine, I took the class each spring on a field trip to the Anza Borrega Desert. Most of them despite being Californians, had never seen the beauty of a desert. let alone any desert. Many thanks!
Borrego is so vast and such a varied ecosystem that one can explore it for a lifetime, as I have, and still find new surprises. Still so many of the creatures I loved and so constantly as a child I can no longer find, like horny toads, sidewinders, trap door spider tunnels. We need to take better care of our planet. Your class sounds awesome and we have very good friends who are both profs at UC Irvine. Wonderful you took the time to introduce your students to gorgeous Anza!
Amazingly beautiful!!! <3
Awww, very pleased you think so!
I was only thinking today about my early life travelling in a desert and how quiet it was. Some amazing images to admire in this post.
What an amazing abundance. 🙂
It never fails to amaze that all this beauty blooms in such a harsh environment~
The flowers aren’t bad either. 😀
Laughing……
It’s amazing how prolific the desert is!
Leslie
It is and amazing how much life it supports!
What beautiful cheering flowers 🙂 Some of the ones with “hairy” stems look like they borrowed it from Wolfie!!! lol 😉 That would be about right as it’s getting around to hair shedding season now 🙂 Better on the flowers than all over everywhere like usual!
Yes I love to see these tiny, delicate plant hairs! Hooray that the Wolf child is commencing his spring molt, so bye-bye snow and cold!
Beautiful. We have cactus plants that bloom here in the Rockies up in the mountains and they grow on our mountain property. In the summer they have beautiful yellow blooms, also. I transplanted some once down here at our home in Loveland and they grew and bloomed every summer, and last for many years. I had to wear thick leather gloves when working with them because of the prickly needles that come off easily onto the hands and our grandkids have fallen over the cactus plans while up on our mountain property and had to have them all removed with tweezers. 🙁 No fun, and a lot of pain. Just better to enjoy them where they grow and bloom.
Oh yes! These are defensive plants. My son was once thrown from his horse right into a cholla cactus. He was covered in so many spines they were impossible to remove. I put him in a hot mineral spring that was nearby and they all fell out and the inflamation disappeared like magic! Blue Agave can kill a dog if they chase something into one. They are definitely not cuddly plants. Your mountain abode sounds glorious~
It is our little refuge and getaway we’ve had for about 25 + years or so. 3.4 acres northwest of Fort Collin in a covenant subdivision of mountain properties known as Glacier View Meadows just under the Mummy range in Roosevelt Nat’l Forest. Very scenic. Those hot springs are marvelous with such healing benefits. There are some here in Colorado too Steamboat Springs and elsewhere.
Sounds perfectly divine and I was thinkging about Steamboat when I responded to your comment. FDR was right about the healing power of natural hot springs wasn’t he!
Yes, he was.
Who knew there was so much beauty in the desert?!? Not me, that’s for sure. Of course, I’ve never really been to the desert, so maybe that excuses my ignorance! Thank you for brightening my Monday, Cindy!
Awwww, thank you Debbie for such a nice comment and very glad these guys brightened your day. They certainly do this for me!
What a blanket of color, bringing a desert to life. Like Debbie, above, I have never seen a desert, but, to me, the flowers look more hearty than fragile…survivalists. I Googled the desert. Had no idea where it was. You live in a gorgeous and diverse state, Cindy. 🙂
Yes, your perception is quite accurate. These are the most delicate flowers you can imagine. They look like they are made of gossamer and air. They last for a very short time, and grow from such spiny, intimidating, survivalist plants. The contrast is compelling.
Gorgeous captures Cindy!
Merci beaucoup Sue!
Beautiful images-but the one of the flower-filled desert was remarkable!
I had to include one lanscape shot to give perspective to how the desert floor looks when it is blanketed with wildflowers! Thanks for noticing~
Gorgeous!
Mil grazi!
The landscape shot of the wildflowers literally gave me chills. Thanks.
Oh, so glad. I wanted to give some sense of the scope of the blooms, They carpet the desert floor!
It is amazing how so much life and beauty can manifest from what we so often think of as a barren sandy wasteland.
Ah, “joyful beauty” indeed! Thank you for sharing them. They brightened my day. 🙂
Your comment just brightened mine!
Gorgeous!!!
I started a new job, so I’m a bit sluggish with the blogging! In a few weeks it will be almost impossible!
No worries! Congrats on the new job. I bet it’s exciting and interesting. Enjoy and take good care my friend~
It’s all in the details… that first shot and the capture of the spider on the spines…
If you can’t find it – cut the photo into 9 squares ( 3 x 3) all the way bottom left square – sort of center in that tan square. 🙂
Oh I missed that! How very cool! Thank you so much for pointing him out and cheers to you Jules~
🙂
Love the spring green color. Our snow is finally melting.
Yay!!! Three cheers for spring! I know it has been a rough winter~
Beautiful and very cheerful this time of the year
Yes, soon the summer heat will descend on the desert and the whole desert turns silent during the day, only rousing itself in the coolness after dark~
Really enjoyed this outstanding photographic display of liveliness in the desert, Cindy. 🙂
Ahhh, so glad my friend and cheers to you~
Thank you, Desert Flower. I hadn’t seen these for just too many years to tell you about. So fragile, so short-lived, but so supremely beautiful ! Hugs, Cuz…… 🙂
They are special, just like you cuz. Hope spring is starting to peek at you through the snow!
Beautiful!
Mil grazi~
WOW !
Love that word! 😉
You have captured the beauty of nature Cindy…
Awww, you do too Pauline! <3
Gorgeous captures! 🙂
Mil grazi!
Bright and cheerful colors!
The desert in technicolor!
Gorgeous. I love the baby green of your first photo. There’s something very calming about it! 🙂
Yes, the desert is extremely calming for me and this may be part of the reason~
Hi Cindy:
When we see many of them in a meadow, we don’t realize how pretty each one is.
Exactly! And if we only see one in high zoom, we don’t know how they look by the thousands!
Wow, beautiful flowers and photos! 🙂 <3
Thank you my friend and blessings!
Ah, the rains brought such beautiful blooms. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, the rain created the blooms! Hopefully spring is tip-toeing your way Brenda. I know your family is more than ready for it~
It will come. Meanwhile, we have broken the record for the snowiest winter on record. LOL Somehow, that feels exciting.
Yes, I can imagine, especially since it is hopefully almost over! 🙂
Exquisite beauty, Cindy. What a fantastic scene that surrounds you!
The desert has this unique and subtle beauty. So pleased you see it!
I can always rely on you sharing something beautiful to inspire and lift my day! Your pictures are very wondrful, I may have to use something soon in another poem…it is so easy to do when one embraces what your selfless and genuine heart shares! Hugs and blessings to you always dear sister!
I feel just the same about you Wendell my brother, blessed to know you! Happy St. Patrick’s day my friend~
Some amazing pictures here. After seeing them I just felt like putting my hiking boots on and going on a desert backpacking trip.
Well, I hope you do! The flowers will welcome you and possibly the Big Horn Sheep too!
You are the “bee whisperer” I swear, I have never seen such detail on those blessed buggies. And the flowers! Amazeballs. The whole of it. serious thumbs up!
Awwww, hope the sun is shining on you in beautiful Santa Barbara my friend!
What an awesome display for natures reward for a long winter – beautiful spray of colors spreading across the desert floor. Love the post Cindy.
So pleased you do and cheers to you too!
Exquisite captures of these beautiful desert wildflowers, Cindy! 🙂 Beautiful details!
Very happy you enjoyed the desert blooms Amy and Happy St Patty’s Day!
Happy St. Patty’s Day my dear – may the luck of the Irish be with you or something like that…
Laughing, I will consider myself lucky if I don’t get pinched for not wearing green! Happy St. Patty’s day my friend~
I lived in the Southwest back in the 60’s & 70’s. This brought back many memories.
Oh lovely, and I hope mostly good ones!
Gorgeous photos. Lovelovelove Anza Borrego. Especially at this time of year.
It is remarkable isn’t it! So pleased you know and love it too!
I love wild flowers! They do not have Hollywood screechy appearance, they are just simply adorable.
Yes, I know precisely what you mean. They are truly natural!
Great captures…love this time of year in the desert!!
Quite lovely and oh so brief!
A sight I hope to see someday…but in the meantime thank you for these wonderful scenes!
Very pleased you enjoyed and cheers to you~
I want it to be spring so bad!!!! I love to see such beautiful wildflowers! 🙂
It’s on it’s way. People are showing me photos of the crocus growing through the snow!
A bee in a blooming flower! What a capture! XD
So good to hear from you Hari! I have missed you and hope all is well with you!
I am very well, Cindy. I hope everything is superb in The Holler. 😀
It is the busiest months of the year for me. The Chinese New Year/ Spring festival just passed and now Ching Ming is coming. It is the 21 days during which we are allowed to clean and repair our ancestors’ graves. We also have to do offering ceremonies there.
These events make me super busy! 😀
I am glad to hear everything is well with you Hari. I was worried during the volcanic eruption. Sounds like a culturally and spiritually rich time for you and your family. I imagine you are cooking some divine dishes. Happy spring and New Year my friend to you and your family~
Those flowers have so much fragile beauty!
Aren’t they incredible. Such a treat to find them growing wild~
Beautiful flowers, Cindy <3
So pleased you enjoyed them & cheers to you~
Beautiful, absilutely stunning! Thank you.
Awwwww, so kind & so appreciated!
sehr schöne Pflanze, liebe Cindy, ich grüße dich, Klaus
Vielen, vielen Dank Klaus und ich freue mich sehr, Sie sie mogen!
These are amazing Cindy. I’d love to go there one day.
Oh I hope you do and post about your impressions too!
i like this 🙂
Amazing blog and photos. Have a good day. Annalisa 🙂
wünsche einen schönen Donnerstag, Klaus
Vielen, vielen danke! <3
stunning! each and every one 🙂
So pleased you enjoyed & cheers to you~
absolutely beautiful Cindy, would love to reblog if it is ok with you…if not I completely understand 🙂 <3
I would be more than honored and grateful. Thank you & cheers to you!
You’re most welcome and the pleasure is all mine 🙂
<3
Niiice!
Can’t wait to see spring flowers around here.
{Hugs}
I can’t wait for you and hope it comes SOON!
Cindy, just gorgeous! But the one ‘with fragile blooms’ is pure stunning! 🙂
You are such a kind blogging friend!
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Cindy’s photos will leave you spellbound…with her vibrant colours and perfect shots I am a definitely in awe of her talent! Do check her out 🙂
Awwwww, such an awesome blogger friend! Hugs & thanks~ <3 <3
Hugs back! <3
I was going to try and pick a favorite but I gave up! They are all magnificent in their own unique ways! 🙂
Nature’s incredible gifts to us! So glad you enjoyed & cheers LInda~
The beauty cactus produce never ceases to amaze me. Your photos are amazing, Cindy.
Awwww, hope all is well with you my dear friend Sheri!
Great work as always 🙂
So kind & much appreciated!
no worries
beste Grüße, Klaus
Guten Tag und vielen dank Klaus~
Beautiful Pictures, thank you very much and happy weekend Cindy….💗💗💗
Froehliche Wochenende!
I love wildflowers, they’re rich with their colors. I love your photo shot, the colors are vivid <3
So pleased you enjoyed and thanks so much for stopping by!
Wow ! Your posts with the gorgeous floral composites celebrate Spring on a permament basis .. Thanks for dropping by Cindy ! ~ Happy Spring ~
Happy Spring to you my dear friend Doda~
Spectacular post, Cindy!! These flowers are glorious, just magnificent! Your blog radiates such happiness and warmth, and whenever I do come here, it is with Great Joy. Have a wonderful weekend!!! Love, Amy
What a lovely comment that just made my day! Thank you & cheers too~
Oh, Cindy, how dear you are. With so many beautiful comments and you still can say this to me. Bless you!!!
The kindness and compassion of bloggers like you enhances my life and brings me much happiness! You are why I love to blog! <3
Which to choose, Cindy? That hot pink with the delicate edges or the sultry greens? Love them all 🙂
You are allowed to be promiscuous and love them all!! I do! 😉 <3
zauberhaft! Ein frühlingshaftes Lächeln im Gesicht wünscht dir Alois.
Glucklicher Fruhling zu Ihnen Alois!
Liebe Cindy habe noch mal deine schönen Fotos angesehen die Fotos sind einfach spitze man kann sie einfach nicht oft genug ansehen danke dir und einen gemütlichen Sonntag wünsche ich dir mit vielen lieben Grüßen Klaus
Vielen, vielen Dank fur Ihre Freundlichkeit und Klaus bitte haben eine wundervolle Woche mein Freund!
You must have visited Anza Boreggo a couple of weeks after us – the flowers were just starting on February 20. Beautiful pics!
Yes, we went maybe two weeks ago and it was bursting in bloom. Looks like we haunt many of the same places in beautiful Caly!
Wonderful nature. Amazing to see something so colourful and vibrant in the desert! Beautiful captures, Cindi.
Best regards, Dina
Happy Monday and best regards back to you my friend! <3
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Here’s my haiku to go with your pink flowers, Cindy 🙂
http://sarahpotterwrites.com/2015/03/23/monday-morning-haiku-57-desert-flowers/
Oh so lovely, just like you Sarah! Thank you and hugs too my friend~ <3 <3
You’re so sweet, Cindy. And thank you to you, too, for allowing me to post your photo on my blog 🙂
Entirely my honor my friend~
I do understand that your roses are beautiful, just as I know that I have a duty to appreciate my wife’s roses, BUT I much prefer the wild flowers that you show. They are beautiful all by them selves. David Austin and Peirre Gelbart or whoever have not stuck there fingers in here. They are beautiful all on their own. And your photos are pretty good as well.
Yes wild flowers are quite special I agree. My mother doesn’t like roses either and I am sure you have more company. Modanna, the singer, “loathes hydrangeas…….” I must profess to loving all flowers. But I respect everyone’s preferences. Well, maybe not Modanna’s……..;) 😉 Laughing……
Wow, Cindy. How very lovely.
Awww, so pleased you enjoyed!
Wild & BEAUTIFUL!
Just like you!!! 😉 <3
Awwww….Thanks. 🙂
{Hugs}
<3
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I have a special place in my heart for desert flowers. Thank you for sharing these lovely photos, Cindy <3
Awww, thank you for your kind thoughtfulness! <3 <3
Always my privilege, Cindy <3
Cindy, thank you for these beautiful images. I just love spring time. Hugs! Veraiconica
You and me both my friend! Happy spring~ <3
wildflowers are my favorites so strong and they go wherever they want to ! Great photos :_)
“Just a wild mountain rose seeking freedom to grow! Wild flowers don’t care where they grow!” Dolly Parton <3
Oh, I love that, so true!!
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Amazingly beautiful dear Cindy… Happy friday & weekend ahead.
Best wishes! Aquileana :star:
Feliz fin de semana para que mi amigo y gracias por sus amables comentarios y maravilloso blog! <3 <3
Oh my God! That one picture of all the flowers covering the desert landscape is amazing! Who knew the desert could be so colorful? I also love the picture of the plump bumble bee in the flower. I’ve never seen this side of the desert. Beautiful. Thank you! 😀
I am just very pleased you enjoyed it & cheers to you!
I kept trying to come up with a name for just one of these beautiful flowers you captured…and struck out. Fortunately, your photos (and talent) kept me smiling 🙂
I think you know how much I admire your talent my friend, so if it is reciprocated even a bit, I am truly honored.
so well captured and lovely
Pleased and grateful that you enjoyed! Thank you~
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