The photo on the right
shows most of the wildflowers that were growing along the path I took. You can see the purple vetch, the yellow fiddlenecks, and the red clover. I hadn't realized until I looked them up that the fiddlenecks are related to borage.
Borage-and-Calendula, Beautiful Borage Greeting Card
This greeting card from my herbal collection shows the blue borage growing in a flowerbed next to the orange calendula.
The first insect I saw on my walk was this ladybug in the vetch and grasses.
Here is a closer look at the vetch in the midst of the wild barley (foxtails.)
As I walked I could hear a lot of buzzing. Unfortunately my camera is broken and the zoom doesn't extend anymore, or if it does, I have to turn off the camera to retract it. That's why I could catch only this honey bee in the lupine or clover. It's hard to tell which she is after. There were also plenty of bumblebees foraging, but I'm not brave enough to try to get a macro shot of one. They were not close to me anyway, and they were very fast. They would not pose like the ladybug did.
Below is some of the fiddlehead in a collage.
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