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April 7, 2008 : Shell Creek Road

Keywords: Boraginaceae | Nemophila menziesii Hook. & Arn. | Asteraceae | Lasthenia sp. | Shell Creek Road, near Atascadero, California, USA

Shell Creek Road

To start off, a thank you for all of the comments recently (including the birthday wishes!).

I was away in California for the past two weeks, taking photographs around Lancaster (the poppy reserve), Atascadero (colourful fields of flowers), the Arboretum at UC Santa Cruz, Point Lobos and UC Berkeley Botanic Garden. It had been several months since I had a photography trip, due in most part to the work required to complete the John Davidson web site. Now that that is done, though, I'm expecting to make a number of trips for the remainder of this year.

Today's photograph is from the Shell Creek Road area of California, east of Atascadero along Highway 58. On either side of the creek for a few kilometres were fields of baby blue-eyes, goldfields, California poppies, tidy-tips and fiddlenecks. The areas weren't solid masses of colour as I had hoped, but impressive nonetheless.

I used a couple web sites to determine where I'd be visiting: Carol Leigh's Wildflower Hotsheet and, to a lesser extent, Desert USA Wildflowers (the latter is better if you are planning on visiting the desert areas, which I decided I was too late for). My self-appointed task now is to avoid these sites, though, because of the displays I feel I'm missing out on.

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at April 7, 2008 10:20 AM

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bravo on the new web site
really handsome home page
be proud of your self

now what pray tell are tidy tips

looking forward to your trips
and reports and pictures

now back to the new page
i need to learn how to hand
tint a picture

Posted by: elizabeth a airhart at April 7, 2008 11:24 AM

Here in Sonoma County, some 300 miles NNW of Atascadero, instead of baby blue-eyes, goldfields, California poppies, tidy-tips and fiddlenecks, it's lupines, Scotch broom, California poppies and red clover. So beautiful, and the air is delicately scented. Ah . . . spring!

Posted by: Peggy at April 7, 2008 1:58 PM

The photograph is great. The one time I have been in California for my son's collge graduation 1987 I got to see the California Poppy's and just loved the intense yellow colour.
Thank you,
Margaret-Rae

Posted by: Margaret-Rae Davis at April 7, 2008 7:50 PM

when I think that we spend millions of hours and millions of litres of fuel mowing hundred of thousands hectares of lawns everywhere!

we could just observe and try to reproduce the kind of landscape shown in the pic!

Posted by: pc crozat at April 8, 2008 1:12 AM

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