Pages Tagged “wildflowers”
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- Wildflower Superbloom in the California Desert – Anza-Borrego Spring 2017 Photos
A family day trip out to the desert to see desert wildflowers in bloom. On the way we drove through old familiar mountains and a grove of iron statues.
- Return to Temporary Wetlands
Photos: The rains have been tapering off, and the ponds that filled the empty lot have been shrinking, giving way to grasses and wildflowers.
- Butterfly
Experimenting with the macro setting on my camera: I cut across a vacant lot on my way to lunch last Friday. Most of it is just dirt and flattened stalks of of dry grass, but there are some plants that have sprung up since it was last mowed (probably sometime in spring) or have managed […]
- Dry spell
It’s been a dry year for California. Water districts all over the state are geared up for drought conditions. The hills in the Orange County area are still golden-brown in mid-April. Last year at this time, they had finally turned green for spring. Here’s a shot from the Irvine Spectrum area from April 6, 2006: […]