Milkweed seed pod just as it's first splitting open

Stems of delicate Gayfeather flowers

Clusters of Snakeweed are bursting into bloom

Spreading Daisy blooms brighten nondescript plants

Rabbitbrush (a.k.a., Golden Bush)

A beautiful large lichen rock nestled in drying wild grasses

Maximilian sunflowers, one of the last wildflowers of summer
(last night the temperature dipped into the 30s for the first time!)