wildflowers

"The Earth laughs in flowers..."

........Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have really enjoyed looking at and photographing the wildflowers this spring

delicate purple flowers of toadflax and spiderwort have finished for the spring

a few splashes of yellow remain in country ditches

Big white fluffy flowers in ditches and along fence posts

"blossom by blossom the spring begins...."

.....Algernon Charles Swinburne

dainty yellow flowers in our fields

Big bunches of this are scattered throughout the country ditches:

I have always called this "Queen Anne's Lace". I have heard it called wild carrot too.

But I've recently read there is a look alike to Queen Anne's Lace that is toxic.

One way to tell the difference is the funny old  saying "the Queen has hairy legs!" Real Queen Anne's lace plants have hairy looking stems and the toxic ones are quite smooth and also have purple splotches.

The ones I photographed today have very smooth stalks, so since I don't know for sure, I didn't touch them.

This could also totally be some other type of weed and not even Queen Anne's Lace.

and bright beautiful splashes of orange wild glads:

What is blooming your way?