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To: Mannie who wrote (8514)	3/18/2008 12:25:24 AM
From: Nihontochicken	Respond to of 50725

It's in the desert near Ridgecrest, Kollyfornia. Unfortunately, I don't have pics that really portray that amazing Spring bloom. This one photo was in a really rocky downhill, as you can see, and so the flowers aren't sufficiently representative of what was blooming in the general area at that time. It was said to have been a hundred year bloom. Okay, well, yeah, but realistically a good twenty plus year top showing. More locally, near Pozo, CA, a number of years back before this we had a big Summer fire. The next Spring, nada, just brown and black, with a few hardy survivors trying to show the colors. For whatever reason, the Spring after that, the whole riding area totally erupted, and bloomed like the Garden of Eden. A number of us took our high buck cameras on the ride, risking crash damage, to photograph the riotous diffusion of color. Just the scent of the vast carpets of lupine was almost enough to drug one into submission. A once (well, very few) in a lifetime experience. Unfortunately, I can't find the pics I took. It was funny, instead of racing each other from point to point, we were all stopping here and there (and jamming up everyone behind us on the tight single track trails) to take pictures of the flowers. One of my best remembrances ever from getting out and about. NC