Finally a weekend with no rain.....and what a weekend! The forest and fields were bursting with wildflowers and fresh scents of summer. The rain has provided an unusually lush atmosphere in the Rockies this year , something I haven't seen before. With the wonderful weather came lots of people, there were crowds at West, motorcycles all over the highway, hikers, campers, orienteers.....everyone wanting to get summer started!
So we found some areas a little off the track.
The flowers were in such abundance it was breathtaking. We saw an entire field of Columbines, another of wild iris, large fields of yellow, the next blue, everywhere we turned there was color.
Green being predominant, when usually at this time its rather brown and dry.
We rode our mountain bikes most of Saturday and we did get to some amazing quiet places.
We had taken the dogs out earlier for a long hike
and they enjoyed the lushness as well, especially rolling in the strea
m on the way back.
There is something totally rejuvenating about this sort of weekend. I felt like a kid, tired but not wanting to waste any moment, lets go here, lets go there. And having a couple of other" kids" along made it all the more fun .
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