PURPLE CONEFLOWERS NATURE The soft lighting illuminates this

The soft lighting illuminates this beautiful scene giving off a reddish hue to the landscape of box elder trees

Oak trees of ice are glistening in the late afternoon sunlight after a storm of snow and freezing rain passed through the night before at Wildflower Park

A cabbage white butterfly rests for a moment during this summer morning at Wildflower Park

The silhouette of a teasel weed plant is being backlit by the soft filtered summer sunlight at Wildflower Park

focused on this false sunflower and began shooting

PURPLE CONEFLOWERS NATURE The soft lighting illuminates thisThe wildflowers this year were beautiful, colorful and numerous throughout Wildflower Park. I was up and out the door to catch the sunrise and photograph the wildflowers before 5: 00 am. As I was walking along the path, a heavy mist was about the park on this early morning and a nice sunrise never came to fruition. I focused my attention on the wildflowers as the morning brightened up. I noticed a purple cone flower plant nestled among the false