Welcome rains and plentiful sunshine combined this week to transform the countryside around Canadian, yielding a wondrous roadside display of wildflowers, best viewed along US 60 towards Glazier.

This Sand Lily (Mentzelia decapetala) was just one of many that posed for us in a field of sunflowers Monday evening about the time the sun started melting in the west.

PHOTO BY LAURIE EZZELL BROWN | THE RE…