10/05/2026
It's Mini Series Monday!!
and I've started a new "edition" - Nature Edition!
For cool flowers, waterfalls, rivers, rocks and anything else that doesn't quite fit into the other categories!
I wanted to start off this edition with something I had never seen and probably will never see again in my lifetime!
Y'all know the Prairie Crocus is my favorite flower of all time. I've certainly painted a lot of them on my antler jewelry lol
April 2020, I was hiking around my dad's property, looking for some pretty Crocus' to take pictures of and to pick a few to take home.
WELL. I found some pretty ones to take a picture of alright!
Never in my life have I ever seen PINK Crocus'!! 4 of them!! I was absolutely blown away!! I wasn't sure if I was imagining it because I thought these were just faded out, regular purple Crocus'!
Overtime after a Crocus blooms, the dark purple they are, eventually fades. There are obviously flower genes that make the Crocus' different shades of purple. But after looking around to other Crocus flowers, I determined these were in fact, pink! (You can see some purple ones in the back of a few of the pictures)
I thought about picking one to press then later laminate so I could have it forever but I chose not too. Yes, I kick myself for not doing that lol but I left these little beauties as they were 🩷
I've been back to that spot several times in the years that followed to see if they bloomed again but they haven't returned. I believe this was a one time occurrence and I could be wrong! I know I'd love to see them again!
