Posted on 03/08/2019 3:34:58 PM PST by blueplum
Full Title: California desert is covered in spectacular wild flowers after heavy winter rain brings second 'once- in a decade' super bloom in just two years
After heavy winter rain closely followed by warm temperatures, California is in the midst of its second 'super bloom' in two years.
Seeds dormant for decades under the desert floor have burst open and produced a display even more spectacular than the last.
It started with the desert lilies in December and since then a wave of wildflower blooms has been crescendoing across the Anza-Borrego desert, in a burst of color so vivid it can be seen from mountain tops thousands of feet above.
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Just south of the city of Riverside, near Corona, there are maybe in the range of a hundred cars pulled off the freeway with the people wandering up and down fields of poppies and other wildflowers. Selfies and family photos being clicked everywhere. Quite the sight! From the ranch, we can see poppies in every direction spilling down the hills. I guess I should be enjoying it, but after weedwacking for a week now, all I can think about is 'firefuel'. The flowers are pretty, tho.
the photos in the article are AP, so, sorry but you’ll have to go to the link to view them.
Stuff grows like mad in California, once it gets some water, as California has, maybe, the most fertile soil in the world.
...and that’s why the Left is diverting most of it.
bkmk
“California desert is covered in spectacular wild flowers after heavy winter rain brings second ‘once- in a decade’ super bloom in just two years”
California is like a drop dead dead gorgeous woman....with every venereal disease known to man and all those not known yet.
Worked at Edwards AFB (Flight Test) for some years even more years ago.
The the post-rain desert was beyond description.
Sacto hurrying to find a way to tax that.
Please dear God, protect and heal our beautiful state which leftists have sought to ruin.
here’s a taste of what I see from our mountain top (20 photos). Not as pretty as the high desert but spectacular in the whole:
There goes that evil globull warming.
Grew up in Palmdale - ‘62-’75. Saw all that beauty so many times! Now the miles and miles of desert behind my house is homes and strip malls.
Looks like it was hijacked from an episode of Twilight Zone, The Movie.
Seeds dormant for decades under the desert floor
The High Desert was in Full Bloom about 7-10 years ago, the same year it Snowed in Havasu,Bullhead City and Laughlin. I fly over it all the time.
I was born in the high desert. Proud to say <3
“California desert is covered in spectacular wild flowers after heavy winter rain brings second ‘once- in a decade’ super bloom in just two years”
California is like a drop dead dead gorgeous woman....with every venereal disease known to man and all those not known yet.
Those flowers will attract billions of butterflies, so you motorists driving through the area will be cleaning your windshields.
Should make for a spectacular fire season this 5.
However, after rainy/snowy winters the deserts of the southwest are beautiful.
Getting real green here in the high desert of AZ.
Cant wait till the goatheads start poppin.
I got the roundup ready.
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