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Death Valley - Wildflowers

03/21/2005 to 03/22/2005



03/21/2005 to 03/22/2005

Maybe once or twice a century there is enough rain in Death Valley to make the wild flowers bloom. Since this was one of those years, we naturally had to go, and we're glad we did.

Apparently a lot of folks had the same idea because they were everywhere, but you can't blame them. The sites were incredible. Unfortunately the day we went was very wind, overcast, and a little rainy at times so we didn't get a lot of good pictures.

To save space I've only included a few of the dozens of shots of fields of yellow flowers. Figured if you looked at a couple you had a good idea of what the other 30 shots looked like



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As you can see, we were not alone
PICTURES/Death Valley - Wildflowers/t_Death Valley - Desert Dandilion.JPG
Desert Dandilions - I loved these. So soft and pretty
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One of the many fields of Desert Gold Poppies
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Another field of flowers
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Desert Chicory
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Another of those field of flowers. See what I mean?
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OK, Guess what this is.
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OK, so I didn't leave out as many as I thought
PICTURES/Death Valley - Wildflowers/t_Death Valley - Bad Water Basin Sign.JPG
Naturally we had to stop at Bad Water
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George likes this one - I do blend don't I.
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This orange stuff is Toothed Dodder. It's the desert version of Spanish Moss
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We didn't know this crater was here. If the wind hadn't been blowing at over 50 mph we'd have gone down inside
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We know the wind speed 'cause there was a guy with a measuring device. I was using the hair method myself.