Rain showers, wildflowers, and a green stink bug

April showers bring May flowers and they sure enough did this year!  Below you will find April showers and the wildflowers that bloomed in May.  The stink bugs were plentiful this year and we captured one on some pretty wildflowers.  Each wildflower is identified with a caption.  Enjoy!

Blue wild-indigo

 Blue wild-indigo with yellow roundleaf groundsel in background.

Roundleaf groundsel

Common milkweed (attracts butterflies)

Missouri evening primrose

 Macro image of wild prairie rose

 Purple low poppy mallow

The season's first wildflowers...

It is so relaxing to photograph nature!  I took the time to venture outside to capture the first wildflowers that have sprouted at The Smith Ranch.  The first image was taken on my first day outside of a blue wild-indigo wildflower.  On another day, I captured some more blue wild-indigo, Missouri evening primrose, a goatsbeard wildflower, prairie groundsel, and finally beardtongue.  I have also listed the flower names above the images below.  Enjoy!

This is the Missouri evening primrose.  It was sprouted on the side of our driveway.

This is a goatsbeard.  It is similar to a dandelion but when it sprouts it is much bigger than a dandelion.

Prairie groundsel is below and these look like tiny daisies.

Finally some beardtongue.  When you look close at the petals before they bloom they look like a lips!