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Lately the color yellow has been all over everything, it's everywhere in an odd way. Sometimes it feels like it should mean something, but I have no idea what.
Carrizo Plain National Monument, during the superbloom of March, 2019.
Superbloom wildflower meadow in the moat at the Tower of London
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A field of California wildflowers from all the rain. mustard grass, fire weed make up the yellow & orange while blue, pink & white flowers fill in closer to the ground
California is looking pretty desiccated right now, as it does every September. So I'm taking a moment to remember when it was all wildflowers, even in areas that are desert most of the year.
Temblor Range Hills and Carrizo Plain National Monument. March 2019.
From the Crocker Spgs Rd, over the range crest and headed towards the oilfields and Fellows, CA. I'm pretty sure these are phacelias, and i think this spot was here in 2017 too.
See my previous post for a fuller story. But went north of Mesa, Arizona this morning to see the poppy "super bloom". A wonderful sight.
The consequence of heavy rains, wildflowers burst forth on the desert floor outside of Joshua Tree National Monument.
Hurry before it's gone! The bloom was at its absolute peak March 25, and 26 when I was there, where over much of the area there was literally no more room for flowers.
Carrizo Plain National Monument, Temblor Range hills. March 2019.
Had a very wet winter, and the spring warmth has arrived - the poppies, lupines, phacelia and owl eyes are in bloom!
Superbloom near peak in San Luis Obispo County.
50 mm lens at 1.8. Learned to appreciate this technique from Steve Udell. www.flickr.com/photos/51657/
With all of our rain the wildflowers are very happy this spring everywhere in California. This is Whitewater Canyon Nature in 2023 Preserve in the high desert about 15 miles from Palm Springs. These plants will have a few weeks or less as it has already reached 100 degrees by April 10. Blessings
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This was at the south end of Soda Lake, where the sign says "DO NOT USE THIS ROAD". I walked along the road for a ways and found the soil oddly soft, the sort of thing a car could sink into if they went off the packed tracks on the road, and I believe it was muddy further along. So hurry and see the superbloom before it's gone, but be safe.
Carrizo Plain National Monument, March 26, 2019.
At least the Carrizo Plain National Monument superbloom was only this crowded, I understand the places closer to the LA Basin were so crowded most of the flowers were trampled.
Temblor Hills, Carrizo Plain. March 2019.
I like to remember it, now that California is arid and dusty, as it always is in September. Spring is brief here, but damn it can be spectacular.
Temblor Hills, near the Carrizo Plain National Monument. March 2019.
Sometimes I push myself to my limits to make things happen. I visited this exact location in 2016 at the end of a long trip in the Southwest. Boy was I disappointed to find nothing but brown barren hills in spring!! And I thought there was plenty of rain to support at least some wildflowers. This year something very different happened.
The entire plains came alive. There were so many flowers, that the bees seemed remote and sparse. I'm sure it was a dream come true for any honey bee, as far as we could see in all directions the hills were covered in bright flowers. There was nothing to see but beauty in all directions, although my jeep barely made it through some of the roads we had to explore to find these places. It's seen some rough terrain, but some of the wash outs were incredibly dangerous and required exceptional handling skills.
The image is focus stacked for maximum depth of field, taken at sunrise. There was a slight amount of cloning to remove a road that I didn't think added much, and a little bit of stretch to compensate for the wide angle lens the shot was taken with as I didn't have time to shift lenses, the light was changing very fast.
Even at the height of spring, the Soda Lake in the middle of the Carrizo Plain was starting to dry, leaving a wide white perimeter around the edges of the lake. Nothing grows on the white mud flats, and no birds settle on the lake, so I assume it's full of horrible chemicals, not that the flowers around the lake seem to mind.
Carrizo Plain National Monument, March 26, 2019. Hurry and see the superbloom before it's gone!
The Tower of London's Superbloom is the beautiful new naturalistic landscape in the historic moat, marking the Platinum Jubilee year of Her Majesty the Queen.
From the Southern California superbloom of March 2019, this is a hillside entirely covered with purple phacelia blooms, interspersed with tiny fiddlenecks.
Temblor Hills, by the Carrizo Plain National Monument. March, 2019.
The wildflowers were concentrated in the northeast corner of the wide open valley, near highway 58. I think the flowers in this picture were mostly goldlfields (the yellow) and phacelia (the purple).
Carrizo Plain National Monument, March 13, 2019. Hurry, it'll all be gone in a few days!
As of yesterday, March 13, the bloom was very much dominated by yellows, mostly Goldfields flowers I think. They tend to form brilliant carpet blooms.
Carrizo Plain, March 2019.
I haven't been able to find the name of this mountain, perhaps under normal circumstances it doesn't look remarkable enough to merit a name. As of this week, though...
Carrizo Plain National Monument, March 26, 2019. Hurry and see the superbloom now, it won't last long!
-- against a canyon slope largely covered by hillside daisies (Monolopia lanceolata). A snapshot thru the (open) window, looking north from the Crocker Spring road. Which you should drive, but you will need a HCV. A (cautiously driven) Subaru or CRV will do fine, Don't go if it's wet! Carrizo Plain NM, in the 2019 Superbloom.
Spring flowers in Western Arizona. It's still snowing here in the mountains, but I was able to swing through this area just as the sun peeked under the clouds.
Taken March 25, 2019, I hope the superbloom is still going on a week later but it's not guaranteed.
Temblor Range Hills, Carrizo Plain National Monument.
Edit: Four years later, it's happning again!!! Go if you can!
The Tower of London's Superbloom is the beautiful new naturalistic landscape in the historic moat, marking the Platinum Jubilee year of Her Majesty the Queen.
El Niño is my best friend in the world this year, and because of him I decided to camp down in Death Valley this weekend. It's one of my favorite national parks, and I think I've been there more than any of the other national parks. One of my favorite things about it is that people are allowed to camp for free if they're over a mile past any of the major roads. This spot is a couple miles away from the Westside Drive, and my truck was about twenty yards away. Thanks El Niño for making it so special down there this year.
The Tower of London's Superbloom is the beautiful new naturalistic landscape in the historic moat, marking the Platinum Jubilee year of Her Majesty the Queen.
With all the rain that Southern California got this winter, it was a safe bet that the wildflowers would be awesome this spring. Well they didn't disappoint! When I heard that the bloom was tremendous out in Anza Borrego State Park near San Diego, I decided to join a couple of friends for a quick trip out there. This shot was taken our first evening there in Henderson Canyon, which was thick with desert sunflowers.