The spring flowers in a wet year were unbelievable. The whole valley floor, and the foothills too, would be carpeted with lupins and poppies … Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine. And mixed with these were splashes of California…
Tag: California Natives
Dichelostemma capitatum: Don’t Google Its Common Name
“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?” — James Montgomery (British poet, campaigner to end child exploitation) The winter rains have blessed us with a bounty of wildflowers. As I headed out to the mountains last Sunday, I hoped that a break in the rain would give me the opportunity to shoot…
Living Life Forté 