Poppy Peeping

A week after Rebecca and family returned from New Zealand, we took grand-daughter Penelope on a road trip to Southern California, in part to visit Vicki's brother Bob and his wife Beth near San Diego, but also to visit Disneyland. Along the way, we took in the "super bloom" going on in the mountains east of LA. California, and particularly southern California, had an unusually wet winter, bringing on a super abundance of spring wild flowers, mostly orange poppies. For an afternoon, we joined the throng viewing them--two weeks ago before the throng got really big--and took in a marvelous natural view at Walker Canyon.

Throng: the access road was a miles-long parking lot; the exit lane from I-15 was
backed up more than a mile, and barely moving; but we got in and got to see
it close up

Pano