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canyonwalkerOn Saturday we visited the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve in California's Antelope Valley. It's part of the high desert nestled in a valley in the Tehachapi Mountains (aka above The Grapevine). And there are lots of California Poppies there. Wow, this paragraph is so repetitive. It's like the park's name tells you everything about it! 🤣
I'm getting backlogged on processing images from our weekend trip (as usually happens) so I'll share a quickie here— a selfie and a short video I shot with my cellphone.
An odd detail I want to note is that we're not actually at the Poppy Reserve in these pictures. We're outside of it! The reserve itself is on the other side of the fence in the pic above.
Why not actually go to the park? Well, a) we tried, but there was a long line of cars waiting to get in. We didn't feel like waiting 15 minutes or more idling in our car, or parking outside the park and walking 15 minutes in. Especially because b) we'd noticed a lovely field of poppies half a mile back from the park entrance off a short dirt road.
In these pictures you can see a fairly healthy springtime bloom of wild California Poppies, the official state flower of California. With all the dry weather the past 3 months we were worried there wouldn't be much of a bloom of wild poppies. They're blooming nicely now vs. pictures from the park we'd checked online 2-3 weeks ago. Still, the bloom is nothing like the massive super-bloom of 2019. Check out my pics and video at that link for jaw-dropping sights.
I'm getting backlogged on processing images from our weekend trip (as usually happens) so I'll share a quickie here— a selfie and a short video I shot with my cellphone.
An odd detail I want to note is that we're not actually at the Poppy Reserve in these pictures. We're outside of it! The reserve itself is on the other side of the fence in the pic above.
Why not actually go to the park? Well, a) we tried, but there was a long line of cars waiting to get in. We didn't feel like waiting 15 minutes or more idling in our car, or parking outside the park and walking 15 minutes in. Especially because b) we'd noticed a lovely field of poppies half a mile back from the park entrance off a short dirt road.
In these pictures you can see a fairly healthy springtime bloom of wild California Poppies, the official state flower of California. With all the dry weather the past 3 months we were worried there wouldn't be much of a bloom of wild poppies. They're blooming nicely now vs. pictures from the park we'd checked online 2-3 weeks ago. Still, the bloom is nothing like the massive super-bloom of 2019. Check out my pics and video at that link for jaw-dropping sights.
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Date: 2022-03-28 09:48 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytK71-PoVG8
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