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cally

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6. Just went and the it is better than the pictures

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 03:57 PM

Mar 2019

What’s impressed me the most, is the miles we drove seeing wildflowers. Most not this vivid or dense, but lots of smaller patches for about an hour of driving. I actually took a few similar pictures as above. The top one is the California Poppy reserve near the peak of the Grapevine in California.

A little tidbit, I stayed in Taft at a nice small hotel. Turns out it is an oil town!! I drive a plug in Prius and I was nervous but all was great.

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California's Super Bloom [View all] Botany Mar 2019 OP

What are these - poppies? FakeNoose Mar 2019 #1

All California poppies. MineralMan Mar 2019 #4

Wow sm6 Mar 2019 #5

I would so love to see your final photo in real life. The colors, oh my Hekate Mar 2019 #9

I know. The town I grew up in was surrounded by large hills and MineralMan Mar 2019 #10

Those are California Poppies WhiteTara Mar 2019 #7

Poppies self-seed like mad as their pods burst. I am looking forward to more on my property ... Hekate Mar 2019 #8

beautiful-- I remember a spring years ago with another super bloom in the desert. incredible!! niyad Mar 2019 #2

We use to live in Twin Oaks which is 18 mile into the mountains from Caliente on Caliente Creek. wasupaloopa Mar 2019 #3

Just went and the it is better than the pictures cally Mar 2019 #6