Flower Friday - The Wyoming Edition

We drove to Wyoming to see the total solar eclipse. We'd seen an annular eclipse before, and we really wanted to see what totality was like. However, we knew that a huge crowd of people planned to visit the center of the totality swath so we arrived early to find a relatively quiet place to watch the eclipse. We succeeded. This was sunset one evening from near our site.

We were camped along the stream that is wiggling toward the camera in the next photo.

After we found our spot, we had days to explore before the eclipse. I was a bit disappointed by the huge impact of cattle grazing on the land around us. It made me sad to see it. However, I found that riding uphill toward the Continental Divide got me out of the cattle region.

However, I also rode into the wildfire recovery area when I got above the cattle.

In that region, there were wildflowers, unlike in the muddy stomping grounds of the cattle.

I took some unconventional photos of the flowers, using a fisheye lens. It was fun.

Their flowers were beautiful!

I kept stopping to smell them and photograph them!

I felt lucky that we were getting to explore a whole new area in our eclipse trip! We will be back to Wyoming - no doubt. I think that it will be even better without the eclipse frenzy.

Happy Flower Friday!