First of the Year

[Wandering Sagebrush]

The wild iris started blooming today. One of my favorite wildflowers.

 

[ski3pin]

Julie says our dogwood is blooming, but I think you know that.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

My domestic iris' started blooming today. Then high winds came up, beat them up and now they're down for the count ...

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

We always enjoy our wild iris.They have such a short bloom though.
Have to enjoy them while they are out.
Frank

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

Wild iris blooming in the meadow June Lake, California, c.1980. I was walking to work, a couple blocks away. My commute involved walking through this meadow at the end of my street, walking across a three foot long 2"x6" "bridge" across the trickle that was the headwaters of Reverse Creek (named because it flows toward the mountains instead of away from them), then walk to the end of another block to my office at the June Lake Community Center; I worked for Mono County. Iris' grew anywhere there was some water and grass. In other words, prolifically.