When April comes, I need to see poppies. So I headed for Wilson Valley Road. Nothing like the spectacular Super Bloom a couple of years ago, but there’s always something magical to be discovered in nature. I found a few poppies, and discovered this pair of bees when I downloaded the day’s photos. There’s hope for the future.
The air is filled with the songs of Spring and beauty is all around!
Another amazing day. The meadowlarks are pairing up, the trees are singing with blackbirds, and I communed with a vulture.
In 2018 my mountain community of Idyllwild, California, experienced a devastating wildfire. In the burn zone, nothing remained. But two years later, life is returning. This 2-minute slideshow features some of the wildflowers that were blooming in June, 2020. Some of these beautiful flowers, the fire followers, bloom only for a few short years after wildfires.
In June, 2020, I visited the burn zone on May Valley Road with friends and fellow photographers Jamie Guthrie and Bruce Edward Watts. Jamie and I were fortunate to be in Bruce’s company. He is literally writing the books on mountain butterflies and wildflowers. What a magical day!
So the first big storm of the winter was about to hit Idyllwild and I decided to head down the hill to The Living Desert for the day. What fun!!!
You have already written this about news traveling fast.
Some people hate detours.
After a deluge of rain in mid-February, March brought a “wildflower super bloom” to parts of Southern California. Two of the three roads off our mountain were washed out, and a detour took us along a rural road as we made our way around the mountain to the town down below.
What have brought destruction to our roads and bridges had blessed the hillside with exactly wheat the wildflowers needed to bloom. And the miracle of the “super bloom” occurred during an amazing butterfly migration.
This magnificient bloom occurred in a protected habitat conservation area.
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