Rocky Mountain Flowers

Here are photos of some of the flowers that I promised more than a week ago.

 There are wild roses blooming everywhere.

The wild white poppy flowers surprise me.

There are different kinds of yellow blossoms everywhere ...

 I don't understand how these flowers can grow and thrive in seemingly arid soil and rocks.

The yellow ones above and the purple flowers below grow among the rocks along the Big Thompson River that flows past the cabin we rent. It was a joy to watch them blossom and develop over the two weeks we were there.

And, of course, the Paint Brush flowers are profuse in the higher elevations.