The Desert Is Blooming

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The desert is alive and in bloom. This year they are considering a Super Bloom due to the high volume of rain (respectively) the desert received this winter. I'll be back down in a week and a half to spend a few days :)

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Has turned into this. Same valley as above just a couple months later.
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@Greenhorn thank you so much for sharing your lovely photos with us and you even have a most interesting caterpillar:love: in the group. Which desert is this? Any bloomin' cacti? maybe in April?:)
 
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Hi Beverly I'm glad you like the pictures. It's Anza Borrego park in Southern California. We did see a few cactus booming but not many. I'm hoping - expecting more to be blooming when I go back in a couple weeks. It's a sphinx moth caterpillar and they are the favorite of migrating (Argentina to Canada) Swainson's hawks.
 

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Lovely pics Greenhorn :)
 
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Wow, that's stunning! What a change. Thanks so much for sharing the photos with us (y)
 
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It's hard to believe, if look at photo # 1, that several thousand seeds are sleeping and waiting for their hour. Wonderful! (y)
 

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