Route 66, Arizona.
Even historic Route 66 looks better with wildflowers!
It is hard to believe this little road was once the main East / West highway to California. I explored long sketches of the road through California and Arizona in 2005, and in many places you would rarely see another car. It was kind of fun to try to imagine what this road was like back in its hay day. It had to be some adventure crossing this country, especially in the summer.
Here are more Route 66 photos.
When I looked at the window last night (well, make that early afternoon) and saw the amazing color in the alpenglow sky, I knew I would be taking a break from the desert wildflower theme!
Native rock art, Christmas Tree Pass (timely name), Lake Mead Recreation Area, Nevada.
Having wildflowers around just provides that many more composition possibilities, even for something like native American rock art.
A bumble bee view of a California Poppy at the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, Mojave Desert, California.
This fun technique is one I would like to play around with some more this winter. What I do is put my smallest extension tube on a wide angle lens. This now gives me the ability to focus very close. I basically have the lens sitting in the flower, and I’m able to focus on portions of the flower that are a mere fraction of an inch from the front of the lens. With certain wide angle lenses, I can actually focus on the front of the lens.Read More
Death Valley National Park, California.
Well continuing with the desert wildflower theme, here is a photo of Death Valley from the amazing winter of 2005. Hard to imagine Death Valley with huge meadows of wildflowers, but this is what it was like that year. Here are more Death Valley Photos.
I wanted to show the size of the desert candles from yesterday’s post – I needed a way to show scale, so I put my camera on self timer and sorta posed with the unique wildflowers.
This is a pretty rare photo – not because it is hard to find desert candles, although it is – but it is more rare for me to be in front of the camera!
Desert Candle, Mojave Desert.
The Desert Candle has to be one of of the most unique wildflowers I have ever seen! When back lit, the hollow shaft of these giant flowers exhibits a wonderful glow, they are really impressive. I think they are fairly rare, I know I looked far and wide before finding a small patch in 2005, and its not like they are hard to miss!
Normally I love winter, but this year in Alaska we have had endless warm temperatures and rain – in the winter, rain is wasted precipitation in my opinion – it could be snow! So I guess this spring like weather has got me thinking of spring wildflowers!
Poppies in the Arizona Mojave Desert.
Another storm just past through the desert Southwest dumping even more rain! The Phoenix area received an additional inch of rain this past weekend, with even more forecasted for today and tomorrow, this really could be good news for wildflowers in Arizona this spring. Palm Springs also received .6 of an inch of rain. Unfortunately the rain largely missed Anza-Borrego, they officially received .02 of an inch.
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