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So I do it three or four times a day :-)
Gene Perret
HBM!! time for my nap :-)
superbloom, lakeside in colorado
It sure looks like a Superbloom in the Carrizo to me though I haven't heard anything official. This nice couple (from Japan, I think) and I were taking photos of the mountains when I realized their outfits were perfect for the scene. I snapped some photos with my phone and this was my favorite photo of the day.
This photo demonstrates how the common name came to be. A truly wonderful flower, especially during the Superbloom!
Found along the access trail to "Little Hawaii" beach, about a 10 min walk from CA-1. Don't miss this walk, if you are in the area! GPS map will find the trail for you. It is unsigned, but there is usually a car or two parked at the trailhead: two gravel strips alongside CA-1, and a gap in the fence with a small yellow State Park boundary sign.
-- a few miles before the highway is temporarily closed at 7 Mile Rd (flood damage). Mostly Goldfields, I think, with fiddleneck Amsinckias in the foreground. An impressive display! I love that deep-blue Desert sky.
Update 4/8/23: CA-58 has reopened. Yay Caltrans!
Here is the San Andreas fault trail guide in the CPNM, that I mentioned in an earlier comment. Short drive from CA-58, on the dirt but (usu) decently-maintained Elkhorn Rd. Side road to trailhead is clearly marked. Recommended!
In recent years the Tower of London has really made great use of the land immediately surrounding the high walls, and this year is no exception.
Known as Superbloom, a wild-flower meadow has been created to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Several years in the planning the project included bringing in 10,000 tonnes of soil to landscape and flatten the ground, before sewing some 20 million wild-flower seeds. The sewing has been timed to generate a display in June that runs through to September.
This (and one or two other takes) was unashamedly influenced by some of Klimt's work.
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Tower of London, 14th July 2022
Apologies for lack of activity recently - got a bit jaded with trains and Flickr generally, but will be attempting to catch up over the next few days.
From a series, and I'm mulling over what to post next. This is pretty much exactly as my eye & camera saw it, with the sky darkened a bit by my simulation of a polarizing filter. Amazingly bright colors! Almost all of the bright-yellow is Hillside daisy, Monolopia lanceolata. The golden patches high on the hills need no introduction: Calif poppies! The dark purple just left of center is a Phacelia, likely Douglas's. The dusky-gold at left center: IDK it. Ideas?
This photo is perhaps a quarter-mile further NE on the same track, but now we have entered the domain of serious 4-wheeling. I think the pale-violet patch at lower left is another phacelia, perhaps Fremonts. Otherwise the same flowers seen as in the first photo.
looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature :-)
Henry David Thoreau
superbloom, colorado
* The Death Valley superbloom is a stupendous natural phenomenon that occurs only once in about ten years after substantial rainfall in fall and winter. In spring, the desert becomes alive with thousands of wildflowers,
During the Death Valley superbloom, the breathtaking desert landscape is painted with yellow, pink, and purple flowers. You can encounter sunflowers, phacelia, desert gold, gravel ghost, Bigelow monkeyflower, desert thorn, desert sage, poppies, and other wildflowers that manage to survive in such a harsh climate.
The Death Valley National Park is the lowest, driest, and hottest place in the United States, which makes the super bloom so unique. In 1913, the temperature of 134 °F (57 °C) recorded here hit an unsurpassed world record.
This is it, my front yard gone wild. Actually, only the California Poppies are wild; everything else is strategically planted and has its own individual watering circle. A few plants of note are the hummingbird yuccas, the red salvias, the purplish and white Sea Lavender, and a blooming aloe in there. The yellow Lantana, a bee and butterfly favorite, has barely begun to bloom. I didn't think the poppies would recover from some freezing temps and pretty strong wind and rain, but there are tons of unopened buds today. They should be good for a little while though the temps are finally warming a bit. The Monarch favorite milkweed is out of sight against the side of the garage, and the single Pride of Madeira spikes (a bit left of upper center) are about to bloom. Not shown is the right-side of the driveway - more of the same, but some spectacular Mexican Sage, a real favorite of the hummingbirds. They love the salvia as well. Fun stuff.
Have I mentioned this drought-tolerant landscaping change I made several years back from the ubiquitous green lawn cut my water usage in half? It also made the yard a fun pastime instead of lawn-cutting drudgery. Here's some more cool: I live near a high school so I get young foot traffic. On occasion, if I have something cool I'm photographing, e.g., mantis, butterfly pupa, I might stop the kids and show them "something cool". The mail person (she's a she) gets a look too.
California Super Bloom 2019. Carrizo Plain National Monument
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Ephesians 3:20-21
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
As the world seems to descend further everyday towards violence what a wonderful oasis of peace is the Superbloom in the moat of the Tower of London, once a symbol of defence, torture and violence.
On a wonderful day trip we experienced the superbloom at the Carrizo Plain National Monument in Central California. It's late in the season, so we drove on a dirt road to the top of the Caliente Mountain, where wildflowers were in full bloom. They were abundant this year thanks to the wet winter.
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Resilient little thing, just like mama made you
No one gets to save you, na na, na na, na na, na
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I deserve congratulations, cause i came out the other side
I've been having revelations, and I'm gonna let them shine
I deserve congratulations, never thought that I'd survive
If you tell me I won't make it, that's when I, that's when I
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Never rained in the desert till I
picked me for the very first time
that's when I
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picked me for the very first time
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I deserve congratulations, cause i came out the other side
I've been having revelations, and I'm gonna let them shine
I deserve congratulations, never thought that I'd survive
If you tell me I won't make it, that's when I, that's when I
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A wild and wet winter here in Arizona has generated a super bloom of Poppy's and other wildflowers. The horses love it!
Walker Canyon
Lake Elsinore, CA
03-09-2019
Processed: 03-21-22
Poppies from the 2019 superbloom in Lake Elsinore.
A splash of color in Slot Canyon in the Anza Borrego Desert area of North San Diego County. Photographed in March during Superbloom 2019.
Southern California is experiencing a bit of a superbloom right now, which of course means we also have plenty of hummingbirds!
I'm not sure if this is a Rufous or an Allen's but he's got some seriously bright colors and loves to show them off, so obviously a male! He didn't appear to be even slightly concerned about me coming closer; I think he WANTED his photo taken!
This was captured in the Tonto National forest. The mountains in the background are the Four peaks range. You can see a time-lapse of sunrise this same day on the 2023 wildflower super bloom video I posted here.
Created for Art Week Gallery theme Fantasy Blooms with 3 stock photos, DDG, paint and Paint shop pro