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How amazing! I live in the desert and I guess there are a few wildflowers during a very short period of time, but your pictures are making me want to pack up everything and move to France! Gorgeous.

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Thank you for your lovely comment Suzanne! Wow, it must be lovely living in the dessert, but I bet it can get very hot there!! I hope you are able to see some wildflowers this summer, what type of flowers do you normally see in the dessert? France is gorgeous and I have been amazed at how many different wildfowers I have seen on my walks here. 😊♡

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Unfortunately I’m not a huge fan of the desert! It is very, very hot. As for flowers, a lot of cacti and succulents actually bloom very beautifully for a short time. The spring here is very colorful, everything usually dies out in the summer, and then fall tends to be a short second spring.

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Cacti and succulents are very pretty when they flower! 😊🌸

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Oh I just loved reading this!! I have felt so pulled to learn how to identify flowers/plants/birds the last few months. This was so inspiring to read! xx

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Thank you for your lovely comment Emily! I am so glad that you enjoyed reading my post about the wild flora & fauna I have seen. I hope you were able to identify some flowers that you have seen on your walks this July! 😊♡

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The first butterfly pictured looks like what we in Ohio call a fritillary (which is a great example of onomatopoeia, yes? 😄) I just adore your nature notebook spotted in the one photo 💚 You do such a great job with it!

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Thank you for your lovely comment Meg!💕 I was looking at my butterfly book and the butterfly pictured did look similar to a fritillary, but there were soooo many different types of fritillary butterflies that I got confused! 😂 I think I need some more practice on my butterfly identifying skills! 🦋

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These are absolutely delightful, it's so amazing how you were able to identify the wildflowers & grasses and the butterflies & insects! Thank you for this reminder to slow down and be more observant of the natural world. This post has inspired me to learn more about my local flora & fauna!

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Thank you Ramya for your lovely comment! 😊 I am so glad you enjoyed reading about my local wildflowers and insects I have seen and I hope you get to spend some down time searching for wildflowers too. It is very relaxing, especially on a warm sunny day! ☀️♡

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Okay, I may not be correct with the white one but it could be a type of bed straw, maybe northern bedstraw. The purple one I’m pretty confident is Heal-All. 😊

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Thank you for your comments and your help with identifying wildflowers! 💐

I think it could be Northern Bedstraw too as I have looked up some photos and they look similar. I wasn't even sure where to start with identifying that one lol! 😂 Fabulous, I will add the new names to my list, thank you for your help! 😊♡

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The purple one with the moth that is!

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The purple one you have on the paper I think could be bugleweed

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Thank you! There is so much of it here and it is everywhere, but I couldn't seem to find out what it was. 😊

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Just amazing the number you have discovered!!! And it's so lovely to sit down with books and actually learn the names. I wish Grandma were here; she would have loved to hear about this. I'm sure she's looking down, thrilled that you're continuing her own passion in keeping the country ways alive. Simply gorgeous.💕🌸🙏🏻

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Thank you for your lovely comment Ma! 🥰 I have enjoyed looking through Grandma's old flower and butterfly books and finding slips of paper in-between the leaves with lists of the flowers she had seen when she went out for walks. So glad you enjoyed reading! X 🌼

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What a lovely Sunday morning read 🤍 I have seen of a few of the wildflowers on my walks but never knew their names, so thank you for enlightening me.

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Thank you Jenna for your lovely comment! 😊 I am so glad you enjoyed reading about the wildflowers I have seen and learning the names for them . 💐♡

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