Natures color pallet can take a little bit of time to hit full stride. The early spring wild flowers are predominantly white and yellow. Apparently this is due to the fact that flys are among the earliest pollinators to emerge as winter transitions into spring. Flys do not see color and so they identify flowers by brightness and contrast against the predominantly green back ground. Blues and reds tend to show up a little bit later as the bees become active. It is now mid June and all of the colors of nature are present, including colors which do not appear in the rainbow! Light does not actually contain colors like magenta and purple. The reason we perceive these colors is due to the way in which the brain interprets the information it receives from the red, green and blue sensors in the eye.

All photos were taken on the Tolleston Dunes trail in the Indiana Dunes National Park