Western Blue Flax (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
I’ve just added a new photo – Western Blue Flax – to my Beautifulflowerpictures.com website.
One of the wonderful surprises from my trip to Colorado earlier this summer was all the wonderful wildflowers in shades of blues and purples! For some reason, I don’t see as many blue and purple flowers mid-summer on the East Coast as I was seeing the Rocky Mountains. One of my favorites was the Western Blue Flax (Lewisii linum). I was a little confused by the Western Blue Flax when I first saw it – it would be blooming beautifully in the morning – and by afternoon there wouldn’t be any blossoms on what I thought were the same plants I’d seen earlier in the day. It turns out that this flax does bloom early in the day – and loses it’s blossoms as the day progresses. I photographed this set of Western Blue Flax in an alpine meadow in the Gunnison National Forest on a morning hike.
This photograph is available as either an 10X10″ or 20X20″ gallery-wrapped canvas. You can order Western Blue Flax from my website and I will have it available at shows this year.
