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Desert in full bloom
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...c537bc465.jpeg Butterflies hatching, flowers everywhere. Great time for riding in the Desert around Palm Springs (breath thru your teeth, many insect hatches) |
Beautiful
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Looks beautiful and great advice about the bugs.
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It is still a little early where I live. The first sign is a few flowering trees which are completely covered with flowers long before the leaves emerge. I spread desert flowers seeds in my own front yard two decades ago and now they self seed even though most are short-lived annuals. Some are already a few inches across but it will be a couple of weeks before the real flowering begins. The succession of rains that came across California and made it over the mountains sparked a lot of new growth in existing plants like the globe mallows shown below. Too bad Death Valley didn't receive rain until January. It's not supposed to be a spectacular year there. Each year I get a violation letter from my HOA complaining that I haven't pulled the weeds in my yard. Just like groundhog day, it comes every year.
Here is one perennial, the globe mallow. I bought one plant with pink flowers and collected another one with the common orange flower from a construction site. From two came about 20 plants spread around the yard. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...13e965cf0f.jpg These three (desert primrose, Fremont pincushion, and notch leaf phacelia are found in Death Valley as well as the rest of the Mojave desert. The desert primrose is the flower that turns Death Valley to a carpet of yellow in good years. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f0d5bb1403.jpg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...69593a0aad.jpg https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...2f03e614e8.jpg The last one does give some people a nasty rash much like poison ivy. When the flowering season is over and the plant has spread its seeds I wear gloves to pull the plants. |
encouraging!
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Windy today. Buddy came by, said his allergies are going nuts. That time of the year. (got to 80° today) :) |
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I'm assuming we will also have a good crop of goathead weeds. |
So That’s the Goathead plant. & right next to the road 😞 I believe I’ve seen that plant .:eek: ... seems most desert plant have some part with barbed points, &/or thorns ... after blood & rubber... |
Happens to all life forms in the desert, including people (who sometimes mix in sarcasm along with their barbs).
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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
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Happens to all life forms in the desert, including people.
fire ants, scorpions, spiders, rattle snakes..... even got poked from the lemon tree thorns .. |
Originally Posted by trailangel
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I'm assuming we will also have a good crop of goathead weeds. |
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...8da0e940c.jpeghttps://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...fb7b3acec.jpeg Had to stop several times for the views Amazing how colorful the area is , Grest ride ...s. seemed every 100’ was a picture taking view |
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^looks like the 10 fwy corridor near the confluence of rancho mirage, palm desert and 1000 palms is going off.
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How are the hoards of touri?
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None snake bit ........ yet Population dropping, Was 88° today. “Snow birds” starting annual northerly migration. We’ll all be gone soon. |
Press is describing the crowds as like Disneyland.
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Originally Posted by wgscott
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Press is describing the crowds as like Disneyland.
(close to Disney, crowded) ..... crowds not bad here , saw 2 photographers on a 20 mi ride. (I was # 3) ....Big desert.... Might be the press is sensationalizing things again (Truth be damned... The norm) Rating = $$$ |
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I saw where they had to shut down part of the Poppy fields due to something like 150,000 people! Some of whom were trampling across the fields and being idiots. Oh well, another Southern California overpopulation symptom . Joe
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Media says “crowds in desert to see super bloom” Next day the crowds show up ....... Herd mentality. herd em up, move em out .... Herd stampedes ..... media reports stampede, .... govt steps in, build corals/fences ...... ........to be con’t..... .... LOL |
Great photos, thanks for sharing! |
Beautiful! Thanks for the photos!
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We took our bikes and cruised by all the crowds ... it was great!
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Thanks for the great pics!!
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