"Close your eyes. It's summer in Crested Butte and you are standing in a meadow of Columbines, Red Paintbrush, Bluebells, Lupine, Yellow Sunflowers and Burgundy King's Crown. Beyond the flowers you see mountains and crisp blue Colorado skies. Can life get any better than this?" Ruth Berkshire Crested Butte "The festival gave so many people a way to have fun, learn about the area and the flowers, and enjoy the companionship of others. I hope to return many times!" Mary Baskin Little Rock, AR "Being a native of Colorado, I find particular pleasure in painting native wildflowers of Colorado. It's not just enjoyment I feel when I study a wildflower, but also a reverence to the plant itself. Reverence for the fortitude genetically given to each native plant to withstand and thrive in our arid, cold and wind-prone climate." Leanne Canty Crested Butte "For everyone, it is joyous to look into the face of a flower or to see meadows of countless wildflowers, outrageous with color and variety. We delight in the rediscovery of our relationship to the existence of plants. There is a shift of perception when we quiet our minds and contemplate a simple blossom. Then we glimpse life, in all its fragility and complexity, its beauty and its brevity, and know that we are linked to the flowers and they to us - we in our humanness and they in their plantness, both expressions of nature's unending cycle." Lee Renfrow Crested Butte