Slightly Wordless Wednesday’s Wildflowers

I suppose I’m a little addicted to blogging since I thought I would share a quickie post today for Wordless Wednesday before I come back with my weekly Sunday Stills feature on April 17th.

Here in Eastern Washington, I’m walking amongst early spring’s wildflowers.

Purple Autumn Crocus — Wild Autumn Crocus

Field of wild crocus — Autumn Crocus pop up under the pines

Mountain daffies grow wild on the mountainsides.

Sunday Stills will be back on Easter Sunday, April 17th with a color challenge featuring no color. Huh? Unless you consider diamond and/or quartz a color…definitely a challenge!

Here are two more early spring wildflowers covered in recent water droplets to fuel your imagination for the “diamond and quartz” color challenge.

Sharing for Cee’s FOTD and Dawn’s Spring Festival.

See you Sunday!

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34 responses to “Slightly Wordless Wednesday’s Wildflowers”

Linda Schaub

Apr 15, 2022 at 6:38 pm

Beautiful flowers Terri – our wildflowers are not poking through the ground, nor carpet of leaves yet due to our wintry weather, maybe a couple of weeks yet.

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 15, 2022 at 6:53 pm
  
  Thanks, Linda. We actually had a bit of snow this morning! Crazy long winter here!
  
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  1. Linda Schaub
    
    Apr 16, 2022 at 5:47 pm
    
    It is crazy Terri. Hope Mother Nature soon gets the memo that we’re now in Spring!
    
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Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com

Apr 15, 2022 at 11:47 am

Beautiful flowers, Terri. I will be very interested to see what people come up with for Sunday’s challenge. Hmmmm….

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm
  
  Thank you, Janis! It’s amazing what you can find when you look 😉
  
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D. Wallace Peach

Apr 14, 2022 at 10:55 am

I loved your quickie post, Terri. My daffys were out and they all got squashed by an unexpected dump of snow! You spring blooms are beautiful. Thanks for the smiles!

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 14, 2022 at 11:30 am
  
  Thanks, Diana! Oh, so sorry about your squashed daffys! Sadly I’ve seen that happen more often than not, especially when we visited Lake Tahoe in May a few years ago.
  
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  1. D. Wallace Peach
    
    Apr 14, 2022 at 4:19 pm
    
    🙂 Snow this late in the year is super rare, so I’m not boo-hooing too bad. Spring is on its way.
    
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  2. Terri Webster Schrandt
    
    Apr 14, 2022 at 4:24 pm
    
    We need all the precipitation we can get!
    
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  3. D. Wallace Peach
    
    Apr 14, 2022 at 4:29 pm
    
    That’s true! I’ll be wishing for it soon.
    
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Aletta – nowathome

Apr 14, 2022 at 2:42 am

Lovely photos!

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 14, 2022 at 6:54 am
  
  Thank you Aletta. It’s nice to see much more wildflowers this spring with all the snow and rain we’ve had. Males such a difference!
  
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  1. Aletta – nowathome
    
    Apr 14, 2022 at 8:41 am
    
    Oh yes! Rain does wonders 💐
    
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Graham

Apr 13, 2022 at 10:51 pm

Great photos, Terri. The daffodil is gorgeous. I hope you had a good time in Leavenworth.

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 14, 2022 at 6:48 am
  
  Thanks, Graham! We really had a great time. Lake Wenatchee was beautiful. The whole area was amazing to see.
  
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Miriam Hurdle

Apr 13, 2022 at 10:48 pm

Lovely daffodils, Terri! I had some this year. My daughter bought five bags of tulips and two bags of daffodils from Costco. I was busy helping her plant during the last trip seeing her. She gave me some bulbs. I planted the tulips and saved the daffodils for next year. Which part of Washington are you? I forgot. It would be interesting to see your Sunday Still with no color.

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 14, 2022 at 6:51 am
  
  Hi Miriam! We’re in Nine Mile Falls a little north of Spokane. I would love to do some planting like you describe. Just enjoying the wildflowers for now. The “clear” photo challenge (think diamond and quartz) should be fun! Where are you located?
  
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Retirement Reflections

Apr 13, 2022 at 10:10 pm

Nice to see you, Terri. I will definitely check out SundayStills this Easter. See you there!

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 14, 2022 at 6:53 am
  
  Thanks, Donna! It’s hard to be gone from the blog long. I’m planning to do some catching up reading today including your post.
  
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Bernie

Apr 13, 2022 at 9:09 pm

Our crocuses aren’t out yet as winter has returned! Lovely photos.

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 13, 2022 at 9:59 pm
  
  Winter kind of returned here too. No snow luckily..
  Yet 🤞
  
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restlessjo

Apr 13, 2022 at 12:01 pm

How lovely those wild daffodils, Terri! A happy Easter to you 🤗💟

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 13, 2022 at 3:04 pm
  
  Thank you, Jo! Happy Easter to you!
  
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Dawn M. Miller

Apr 13, 2022 at 11:42 am

I’ve never seen mountain daffodils. They are cool looking.
Thanks for liking up.

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 13, 2022 at 3:05 pm
  
  I don’t remember seeing them here last year. They were a nice surprise! 💐
  
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Susanne Swanson

Apr 13, 2022 at 9:12 am

Wow! Those flowers are gorgeous! Thanks for the reminder – and tip – on your coming diamond and quartz challenge. I don’t have a lot of either of those lying around, so finding the color other ways is probably the way I’ll go! 🙂 And it’s good to have you back!

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 13, 2022 at 3:06 pm
  
  Aww, thank you, Susanne. What a nice thing to say! I’m sure your clever self will find something!
  
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  1. Susanne Swanson
    
    Apr 13, 2022 at 4:41 pm
    
    I hope so! 😉 🙂
    
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Cee Neuner

Apr 13, 2022 at 8:40 am

Oh Terri, you have some marvelous flowers for today. I so adore your yellow daffodil 😀

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 13, 2022 at 9:04 am
  
  Thank you, Cee!
  
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Hammad Rais

Apr 13, 2022 at 8:21 am

Lovely flowers, Terri 🙂

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 13, 2022 at 8:28 am
  
  Thank you, Hammad!
  
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Jacqui Murray

Apr 13, 2022 at 8:00 am

Those are beautiful, Terri. These are so different than domesticated flowers, aren’t they?

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1. Terri Webster Schrandt
  
  Apr 13, 2022 at 8:02 am
  
  With all the rain we’ve had, there seem to me more variety this spring, Jacqui. Soon the arrowleaf sunflowers will bloom everywhere 💛
  
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