Sunrise in Anza Borrego State Park, California
Sunrise in Anza Borrego State Park, California
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California, offering over 500 miles of dirt roads to explore. Anza Borrego can have a prolific wildflower bloom, with various species blooming from late February into April.
While the winter of 2010- 2011 brought ample rainfall, it may have been too much: 2011 wasn't a particularly good wildflower season. Hopefully 2012 will be less extreme, and offer better growing conditions.
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#plusphotoextract #NatureMonday curator Rolf Hicker
Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteIt's stunning!
ReplyDeleteI second dawn m. armfield - GORGEOUS!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shot!
ReplyDeleteWonderful shot!
ReplyDeleteWhat a light show! What makes it for me though is the rim light on the foreground plants....sweet!
ReplyDeleteReally gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteIt is really pretty out there. Haven't been in a while.
ReplyDeletegazes into the middle distance
ReplyDeletewonderful view, love the sunset
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful scene Jeffrey Sullivan. Like how you allowed the plant meander out of the frame instead of keeping it whole.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous light and love the composition!
ReplyDeleteI have many great pictures from that desert. I took a group out for the spring bloom but it wasn't particularly spectacular but I did get a few good shots.
ReplyDeleteNice shot!
ReplyDeleteWonderful Jeffrey Sullivan
ReplyDeletehttps://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/104911693992691262494/albums/5703678124650439489
ReplyDeletea few I took there
Love the composition. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone!
ReplyDeleteJ. Rae Chipera So that was you back there! Fortunately the park is a maze of unpredictable dirt roads, so many spots will remain relatively untrampelled, if not totally secret. There was one place I was dying to reach, but it took me four tries and routes over the course of two days to actually reach it, even with high clearance and 4WD!
Rick Stone Couldn't get your link to work, and didn't see AB photos in your albums (maybe the album defaulted to private). I'll probably lead a workshop or photowalk there myself sometime in March... still working out the details.
Sorry about the link. I'll fix that now. Do you have favorite spring bloom area out there?
ReplyDeleteGreat picture! I surely hope to visit this place sometimes in the future
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