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The article concentrates on the High Desert, but here in SoCal the hills are covered with golden poppies and wild purple verbena.

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.

1 posted on 03/08/2019 3:34:58 PM PST by blueplum
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the photos in the article are AP, so, sorry but you’ll have to go to the link to view them.


2 posted on 03/08/2019 3:35:59 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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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.


3 posted on 03/08/2019 3:38:13 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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bkmk


4 posted on 03/08/2019 3:57:14 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Worked at Edwards AFB (Flight Test) for some years even more years ago.

The the post-rain desert was beyond description.


7 posted on 03/08/2019 4:01:06 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Sacto hurrying to find a way to tax that.


8 posted on 03/08/2019 4:03:22 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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There goes that evil globull warming.


11 posted on 03/08/2019 4:10:59 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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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.


12 posted on 03/08/2019 4:14:40 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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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.


14 posted on 03/08/2019 4:26:30 PM PST by eyeamok
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I was born in the high desert. Proud to say <3


15 posted on 03/08/2019 4:40:32 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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Those flowers will attract billions of butterflies, so you motorists driving through the area will be cleaning your windshields.


17 posted on 03/08/2019 5:59:10 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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Should make for a spectacular fire season this 5.


18 posted on 03/08/2019 6:16:24 PM PST by dangerdoc
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Getting real green here in the high desert of AZ.

Cant wait till the goatheads start poppin.

I got the roundup ready.


20 posted on 03/08/2019 7:09:23 PM PST by crz
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