Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Poppies and Windmills

I ventured to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve last week.  It was just a bit early, but there were a lot of poppies...as opposed to a profusion.  This pic shows hillsides of poppies (orange) and desert sunflowers (yellow) with the windmills of Tehachapi Pass in the distance.

A hillside of poppies.

More poppies!  It was a windy day but the flowers were resolute.

Fiddlenecks.

Thick poppy field rolling down the hill.

Poppies going uphill!

A sea of windmills.

Back in JTNP.  Chuparosa in bloom in the low elevation Colorado desert of the park.  The Colorado desert dominates the south...hotter and drier than the Mojave desert in the northern and western areas.  The Joshua Trees grow in the higher, cooler Mojave desert.  It snows up there once in awhile in the winter, around 5000 feet elevation.  The chuparosa here is growing down around 2000 feet. 

Blooming beavertail cactus.  

Beavertail blooms up close.  Normally this cactus and the hedgehogs are the first to bloom...hedgehogs were still laying low, though.  It was a cool winter up and down the entire west coast.

JTNP rocks, the trademark landscape of the park.  The surreal stones make JTNP a power spot.

Sunset turns the mountains red near Jackalope.

The pool at Jackalope.  It was not heated and was only about 65 degrees, but was refreshing on a hot day...at least for a brief dip.Su

Sunset beyond the poles.

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