Showing posts with label Golden Poppies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Golden Poppies. Show all posts
Monday, April 24, 2017

We'll Pretend I Saw the Superbloom the Same Way I Hiked the Pacific Crest Trail Today

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I showed up late and at the wrong address for the party. There have been so many reports of the "superbloom" of wildflowers aro...
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Saturday, April 4, 2015

A Day on the Stanislaus: There's Still Some Water in California

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It's not nearly enough, and the runoff from the snows of winter will be the worst ever, but there is still a little bit of water in Ca...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

The Yosemite No One Sees in Summer...the Merced River Canyon

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The drought in California is horrific. It is quite probably the worst drought in centuries, but we received a slight respite in the form o...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Spring arrives in the Sierra Nevada Foothills (and a gratuitous mammal photo)

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A long work week, and then another family gathering, this time in Porterville in the southern part of California's Great Valley. We co...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

California's Great Valley Turns Technicolor

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Springtime is arriving in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the Great Valley (most people know it as the Central Valley, but we have our pri...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Fighting For California's State Rock: What's Right With Serpentine?

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California's state flower, the Golden Poppy, grows on serpentine soils at Hells Hollow on Highway 49 in California's Mother Lode. F...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Other California: Already off on a Tangent

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It occurred to me while looking over my postcard post on the "usual" places of California that a discussion of places in Californ...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

A Gift for the Spring Equinox

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Greetings from California! We've reached the vernal equinox, when the earth is situated in such a way that the day and night are of equ...
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