Wildflowers backlit during the "golden hour"

My favorite time to photograph outside is during the "golden hour."  The following flowers with their identifying comments below were photographed using the sun as a backlight during the "golden hour."  Enjoy!

The next three images are purple coneflowers.  My favorite is the second image with its colorful background.  Shooting with a wide aperture lens when backlighting makes for beautiful background colors!

These daisy fleabane wildflowers are so tiny and so much in abundance!

This daisy fleabane image was taken from above in the warm light of the "golden hour."

This unique milkweed is called green comet; very fitting name, isn't it?

A bumble bee feasts on this milkweed called spider antelopehorn inflorescence.  What an interesting name!

A caterpillar on the milkweed plant, same type as above.

Last but not least is this cobaea beardtongue wildflower!  You can see it's furry tongue sticking out of the flower!

The first wildflowers this spring...

Overcast days bring out the rich colors of the wildflowers and the green grass.  The images below with their descriptions were the first wildflowers to bloom this spring.  Enjoy!

Berlandier's evening primrose are very tiny and tall wildflowers and this closeup gives the impression they are bigger than what they really are!

I waited too late to catch these wild blue-indigo as they were well eaten by bugs. 

Love using macro lens to get closeups of these beardtongue wildflowers.  The name is very fitting!

These Missouri evening primroses were plentiful this year! 

The heart of this Missouri evening primrose is so beautiful!

This bug was watching me take its picture while feasting on this pink evening primrose.

Tried to find wild blue-indigo that hadn't been marred by bug bites.  Love the purple and green colors!

This goatsbeard macro shows these tiny white seeds that I didn't notice till I looked on the computer.

I like how the leaves in the background frame this young purple coneflower!   Be looking for my next set of wildflowers taken during the "golden hour" of sunset.