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I have a nice comment from Montreal Flowers about the lupine flowers and wanting more information on them. I know they are a wild verity of a highbred that can be bought at some plant nurseries. The wild ones seem to like high altitudes and decent water, not drought conditions, to be able to bloom like this. I saw more on this trip than I have ever seen. You might try googling the name of the flower 'lupine' and see if you can get more information about them from one or more of the good flower and wildflower web sites that are out there.

Wild Locast Tree

It was very dry in the mountains so I was surprised to see so many wild flowers blooming. The wild locast trees were beautiful with pale pink to a light purple in color blossoms. There were wild roses, iris, and lupines as well as many others that I couldn't name and were so tiny I couldn't get a decent photo of.

Wild Lupine

Here is a close up of the wild lupine flowers that bloom in the mountains.

Doggie In the Flowers

Tuffee walked through the field of lupines

Indian Paint Brush Wildflower

This orange flower is called the Indian Paint Brush which seems kind of weird as it doens't look like an Indian or a paint brush. It is common on the desert all over New Mexico.