Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

I took an afternoon walk in Cowiche Canyon on this warm, sunny day. The sky was full of big thunderheads and I was hoping one would blow in front of the sun to cool it down a little & give me some diffuse light, but all they did was stay in the distance to enliven the skies of my photos. Wildflower season is winding down here in the shrub-steppe, so I was quite surprised at the number of flowers I found in bloom: 4 or 5 species of desert buckwheat, some blooming in profusion, lupine, some good stands of showy pensteman, syringa, wild rose, western white clematis, and even some sagebrush mariposa lilies. How fortunate I am to have a place like this so close to home!