Something good has come from all the rain in California

[Dover]

Heaven on Earth!



East of Tehachapi, California
East side of Carrizo plains in the Temblor range.

Wildflower Hotline!
http://www.theodorepayne.org/hotline/hotline040303.htm

[fooj]

1. That is beautiful!

Wow!!!!!!!

[TomInTib]

3. Hey, fooj! Ain't Northern California beautiful right about now?

And how about them 'stros?

Little baseball joke, there.

[TomInTib]

2. Well, we didn't wash away and everything is just beautiful here

Tiburon, on the Bay.

And that looks like a wonderful website. Thanks

[Ecumenist]

4. OOOh Beautiful!! Just lovely!!

I'm about 350 miles north of this...

[Lexingtonian]

5. Wow!

I guess there are some fringe benefits to living off Antelope Valley after all... :-)

[Oversea Visitor]

6. Hehe

Niiiiiiiiceeeeeeee......thanks bring smile to face.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Amazing picture

Thanks for that. In the UK , despite the fact it's only April, we're already on hose pipe and sprinkler bans. I envy you the rain !

[Odin2005]

8. WOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Beaverhausen]

9. Every year I pledge to go see the wildflowers

and I always miss them! Thanks for the link to the hotline!

[phantom power]

10. "It was the judgement of life against death."

I have said that I saw a judgement upon life, and that it was not passed by men. Those who stare at birds in cages or who test minds by their closeness to our own may not care for it. It comes from far away out of my past, in a place of pouring waters and green leaves. I shall never see an episode like it again if I live to be a hundred, nor do I think that one man in a million has ever seen it, because man is an intruder into such silences. The light must be right, and the observer must remain unseen. No man sets up such an experiment. What he sees, he sees by chance.

(...)

The sound that awoke me was the outraged cries of the nestling's parents, who flew helplessly in circles about the clearing. The sleek black monster was indifferent to them. He gulped, whetted his beak on the dead branch a moment and sat still. Up to that point the little tragedy followed the usual pattern. But suddenly, out of all that area of woodland, a soft sound of complaint began to rise. Into the glade fluttered small birds of half a dozen varieties drawn by the anguished outcries of the tiny parents.

No one dared to attack the raven. But they cried there in some instinctive common misery, the bereaved and the unbereaved. The glade filled with their soft rustling and their cries. They fluttered as though to point their wings at the murderer. There was a dim intangible ethic he had violated, that they knew. He was a bird of death.

(...)

The sighing died. It was then I saw the judgement. It was the judgement of life against death. I will never see it again so forcefully presented. I will never hear it again in notes so tragically prolonged. For in the midst of protest, they forgot the violence. There, in that clearing, the crystal note of a song sparrow lifted hesitantly in the hush. And finally, after painful fluttering, another took the song, and then another, the song passing from one bird to another, doubtfully at first, as though some evil thing were being slowly forgotten. Till suddenly they took heart and sang from many throats joyously together as birds who are known to sing. They sang because life is sweet and sunlight beautiful. They sang under the brooding shadow of the raven. In simple truth they had forgotten the raven, for they were the singers of life, and not of death.

http://home.earthlink.net/~pkrczr/eiseley.htm

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Omigod! No way is that real!

[BrightKnight]

12. So that is were the TX bluebonnets went this year.

Between the drought and 101 degree heat most Texas wildflowers are missing this year. I guess that they all decided to move to a Blue state.

[Horse with no Name]

26. They are out in full force in East Texas

These were taken in Cooper.

[wildflower]

13. How beautiful.

It looks like a painting.

[Hoping4Change]

14. Wow

Thanks for posting this. Its spectacular and uplifting.:applause:

[troubleinwinter]

15. Beautiful, but photo taken in March 2005, not this year.

[Canuckistanian]

16. Here it this for this year...

:D

[Dead_Parrot]

17. lol...

Looks a bit like my veg. garden. Sigh.

[Canuckistanian]

18. Hee hee. Or my flower garden

We do get a flower in our area - Devil's Paintbrush, that turns a field a bright orange-red.

But nothing like that picture in the OP.

[Nostradammit]

24. Now that's Funny!!

Blew some bong water out the stem with that one ~


That photo in the OP is fantastic. Thanks.

[Sequoia]

25. Oh, very funny smarty pants!

That's next years' photograph.

[caligirl]

19. I live in a hilly area south of Oakland and am seeing this kind of stuff

near by. Not that much but lots of color in the hills. Our neighbor has grown a huge swath of poppies in front of his house. Orange color everywhere.

[Beaverhausen]

20. Some other nice pics on this site:

http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca.html

from this week!

[driver8]

21. No doubt about it -- Mother Nature kicks ass!!

That is absolutely beautiful.

[sonias]

22. That's what makes this planet beautiful

Nature. If more of the world would just get peace and enjoyment from life's simple pleasures - the beauty of flowering plants.

I'd like to wish the world a valley of peace. How could anything think of anything but peace looking at that beauty.

Thanks for the link Dover!

Sonia

[kestrel91316]

23. Poppies and lupine............. my favorites!