Wild Flowers from the Rocky Mountain Area

We drove across Colorado today and I took some photo’s along the way with the motorhome in motion.  I am amazed at how many turned out. I put the camera on the “action” mode and it worked and the pictures were not blurry – this is the little camera that I use not the big nice one that Mike has   I will need to get them uploaded and the computer is working slow tonight so it will wait and I will see if it will work better in the morning.  In the meantime I did upload some photos of wildflowers that Mike took while we were in the Estes Park area and will do a post this evening on that. (we do have wireless in this park near Ouray, Co. but it doesn’t appear to be very fast).

This time of the season is not the best time for wildflowers as some of them have already faded and died in September but we managed to see some.

these little flowers we thought were bluebells, but I am looking up in the wildflower book right now for the part of the country and it says they are "harebells"

I can't for the life of me think what this flower is called. We have them in Arkansas too and I have planted them. They are a type of daisy I think and they start with the letter "G"?

this plant is called "fireweed"

I think this one is some kind of "wild aster" I have 3 different wildflower books that I am looking at and I can't for sure identify this one.

This one is easy - "thistle" and it even has a bee in it!

there are so many white daisy's but I believe this one is the "oxeye daisy"

I haven't a clue on this one but I thought it was pretty maybe a variety of "goldenrod"?

I don't know what this one is either but it was pretty. It is possible it is a tree that is not mature. I have found one picture that it resembles - the "Western Mountain-Ash" tree which grows in mountain canyons which is where we were.

If anyone knows the names of any of these plants and/or thinks I have one wrong let me know.  I would love to know for sure what they are!

As I told you all yesterday we were driving today to the western part of Colorado and we arrived at our campground near Ouray around 5 this afternoon.  We were told by the campground host that bear have been in our campground recently and to keep all food in the motorhome or vehicles and leave no food or garbage outside.  I would like to see one but from the safety of the camper!  We have already seen deer wandering through the campground this evening.  We will begin exploring the area (we have been here at least 2-3 times) tomorrow and I will blog as I can.  Normally we are slow in the morning checking mail and such and then out most of the day and then back in the evening.  We do not watch tv normally when traveling but spend time on the computers going though our photos and blogging! (reading and sewing as well)

I did get two more quilt blocks done this afternoon but then I dropped my pin cushion and it fell quite a distance and I couldn’t retrieve it (we keep our seat belts on all the time) by time we stopped and I retrieved it I had lost interest in sewing and had begun to take the photo’s of the scenery while Mike was driving.  I hope to have those up for you all tomorrow.