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!

Purple wildflowers, a Palomino horse, and signs of autumn in God's country!

These purple wildflowers called false purple thistle appeared in our pasture for the first time since we moved here over 6 years ago.  I discovered them during an outside client session and came back a few days later to photograph them at sunset.  I had to be careful when getting down low to photograph these wildflowers as they are prickly and I got pricked on my Bahamas! :)

I can never have enough photos of my horse Ace and he looked especially stunning among the yellow broomweed and against a deep blue sky!

I very much welcome autumn this year along with the plants that decorate the pasture with their autumn colors.

This last image of the day taken captures a beautiful sunset in the Flint hills of Kansas, better known as God's country!