Wildflowers in Joshua Tree National Park, California.
I had been hearing wonderful things about the Southern Entrance to Joshua Tree NP, and I must say they were accurate. The fields of flowers in this couple mile stretch are every bit as good as 2005 in my opinion; there are wonderful fields with a beautiful variety of color! I wish I had gone a little sooner as many are a little past prime.
I liked how the last light of day was just hitting the top of the flowers – it almost made them glow. On the downside, by this time of day the poppies had all closed up – 2 hours earlier, this filed had lots of bright yellow poppies far more visible.
It is interesting to compare this year with the famous bloom of 2005. This year there is lots of California Sage and Poppies. In 2005, this area had lots of lupine and Brittlebush. Here is the same location from 2005: Joshua Tree Wildflowers. Of course in both years there were dozens of other wildflowers mixed in.
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perhaps the lupine had closed up already? There were mostly lupine when i was there.
you up for meeting around 11:30 in front the state park visitor center on Saturday?
great shot btw lol. those bushes in the background really work here because it pops against that shadow you placed them against
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You are right, there were some areas a little lower down from here that were mostly lupine. The lupine in this area were almost bloomed out – I could see how it would have been mostly lupine early on.
11:30 at the VC sounds good.
Hey Ron,
That’s wild, I think of lupine as a northern cold weather flower – I’d never have guessed they get ’em down there.
What’s all this about clandestine meetings at the VC? Isn’t “VC” a symbol for public bathroom, in Europe? :0
I gotta run — SOMEONE got their REI dividend today!
Cheers
Carl
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You know I’m always surprised to see lupine here in the desert – it must be the coyote of wildflowers – it can live anywhere!
Yeah Richard and I have the secret code down.
REI dividend – now that sounds fun!
Is lupine not commonly found in the desert?
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I think it is, what I find surprising – it is also very common in Alaska. I can’t think of another flower or plant that I see in both places.
You’ve got to love Palm Springs – beautiful skies and adjoining canyons and mountain . I even like it when it’s 115 in the summer. I’m heading out to JT Saturday morning to spend the day and late into the evening shooting. We should set a “unofficial” meet-up if anybody wants too – heck, I’ll even bring an extra cold one to share.
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I agree Rick – well with everything but the 115 degrees!
I don’t know if I will make it back to JT, but is you get down the AB way – say hey at the Visitor Center at 11:30 on Saturday.
Ron
Cool – we’ll see if the CFO (insert wife) will grant the expenditure. Hey by the way, thanks for stopping by the blog. Now if I could just get a few good images posted, people wouldn’t be so afraid to visit. I keep telling them, there eye’s will heal just fine 😉
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You have lots of good stuff on there – it does seem to take a long time for people to find a new blog.