I went to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area last Sunday for a walk. Much to my delight, the place was covered with wildflowers. So, I have some photos of the wildflowers among the granite to display. These were all shot hand-held on a very cloudy morning, while hiking up the rock dome. The photo below was taken from the lower summit trail down near the trees. There were wildflowers everywhere and it was difficult to know where to shoot.
The wildflowers were happy growing in crevasses or pits in the granite that had collected dirt over the years.
All along the top of the dome, there are low areas full of plants and wildflowers. I guess they take advantage of the spring and grow and bloom before the heat of summer. In the photo below, the little speck in the distance is vulture flying around I think. There were also several people around but I removed them in editing; I don’t think they mind.
And lastly, one from the road on the way back from the park. The countryside was just covered with wildflowers and blooming cactus. I believe in this photo, you can see prickly pear cactus flowers, Mexican blanket, plains coreopsis, and probably a few other things.
The photos may have been a little better with some sunlight, but I took what I got. It was a nice excursion. Thanks for reading.
Jason Frels 
Beautiful shots. I find myself in a better mood, just looking at them.
I occasionally see vultures, myself, while out on foot. I take them as nature’s warning sign to stop hiking. Maybe one day I’ll heed that warning.
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They probably want you to keep hiking.
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Could be. And it could be the reason why they fly around in circles is in celebration of the circle of life.
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Flying in hexagons is too hard.
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Probably. But if they were converted to Christianity, they’d fly in cross formations.
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🙄
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Only worry if you see the “Flying Monkeys” of Oz fame.
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🤩🤗🌻🌼🍃🙌🏼
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Love the Gaillardia (aka blanket flower)-so pretty.
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I like these. They all strike me as, “going somewhere”.
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Going to seed, perhaps.
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Nice collection of images, Jason. Wondering on the second image you posted of the walking path if you had places the camera on the stone or slightly even with the tops of the flowers and photographed down the patch what kind of perspective that might have given. Always curious.
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Thanks for the pretty flowers to look at as we are driving on the rainy, not pretty interstate.
I really liked the first shot with the two blue flowers amidst the yellow ones. At first, I thought maybe I wasn’t seeing right.
All wonderful shots. We have to make it to Enchanted Rock sometime.
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Well, I can’t say if you were seeing things. But if you do go to Enchanted Rock, watch out for armadillos
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Well, now you have me second-guessing myself.Maybe I been staring at the road too much and my eyes are imagining blue flowers. I will be sure to bring my imagination with me to Enchanted Rock so that I can see armadillos. LOL!
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