Montana Mountain with Pam & Dick

Our group was going on a day trip to Montana Mountain last Wednesday so we were able to borrow our friends' Molly and Dale's ATV and take Pam and Dick along for the ride. it was a gorgeous warm day and we had a wonderful trip. We have been 3 months with no rain so it was so dusty out there. We all had to leave large distances between ourselves so we didn't choke on each others' dust. It was a wonderful day and a great ride though. We hadn't been to Montana Mountain since early January so it was so neat to see how much has changed since then with wild flowers blooming and trees with leaves now.

 Our first stop on the trip. We haven't started up the mountain yet. I didn't get to take too many pictures as I was driving our ATV with Pam as my passenger and Doug had Dick. Hard to take a picture when you are driving!

 Doug had the camera here and took the picture of Pam and I up ahead of him

 Doug was following along behind us taking our picture

 A bit dusty as you can see!

 This was about half way up the mountain and the view is spectacular

 Trent is first in line, then Craig and then me. Doug is behind taking the picture

 As usual, we are leaving Doug in the dust

 Wild Verbena was flowering every where and was so pretty. Amazing how it can grow when we haven't had any rain for 3 months!

 The group stopping for our lunch break right at the top of Montana Mountain, we are at 5300 ft above sea level. From the left: Craig, Bill, Doug, Sharon, Pam, Dick & Trent

 Wild Verbena with a Scotch Thistle behind it

 Not sure what this wild flower is but it was so pretty! Actually, I just found out. It is called: a Caliche Globe Mallow

 The view from the top of Montana Mountain

 We look like a pretty rough group!

 Beautiful desert lilies!

Everywhere we looked we could see different wild flowers. This was a bank covered in desert poppies and lupines