Wildflowers

Wildflowers are great - they are always around to enjoy and photograph; whether they are just springing up or if they are frozen and frosty.

After our long winter, I enjoy the arnica as they bloom in our yard and along the backroads.

Then my second favourite spring flower would be the alpine
marigold - they grow up on Hudson Bay Mountain wherever there is water. They are a durable little flower and I take care not to tromp on them.

You may think that the cow parsnip is not a beautiful flower but I love their design as they bloom and then again in the winter as they somehow stay upright and get covered in hoar frost.

This wildflower - which I'm guessing is a type of dandelion... was found along the railway tracks down in White Rock during a family reunion.

This next flower is again a mystery to me but they bloom all through the Nisga'a lava beds which is amazing that anything grows there at all. On the weekend we went camping there it was like a being on a b-b-q...

And of course there is the fireweed - brilliant pinks and purples that brighten the sides of roads and cutblocks.