Our golden hills have yet a different tone. It’s amazing, all these flowers are stunning , to think they have waited so long to sprout. I hope everyone gets to see the beauty of nature.
@@bumblebee5990 The super blooms are about 2 hrs away. I don’t know if I will be able to this year. But all our local hills are full of wildflowers with hiking trails to them, so I’m thankful for that. Yes, I love bees and all the pollinates and all of the natural world. Are you able to visit any of the super blooms?
@@SeaTurtle515 Oh yes, I saw huge patches of poppies and lupine when I drove across the state just north of San Luis Obispo. It’s was the first time I had ever seen this much. It’s also starting to really fill out in the Bay Area. Even Oceanside there are a lot more flowers. I am kind of interested in what will happen in the Mendocino area as they have been replanting native species along the costal trails for years. There are varieties of poppies that just are lovely. Nothing beats standing near a tree in blossom listing to all the different bees.
Extremely beautiful. Don't doom the bloom! Perfect time to grow up, and get rid of immature selfishness by ignoring necessary rules. Stay on the paths!
I saw this back in 2019s super bloom at the Poppy Reserve in Antelope Valley. It was breathtaking. People should see it at least once to experience nature's beauty
I'm 55 and have only seen that once when I was a little kid and never forgot it. I've lived in Utah since 1976 and I figured a bloom was coming and wished I could go . I've been enjoying still shot pictures on RU-vid. They are incredible 😁
I was just down the the Mojave desert for a week and it was gorgeous - mustard yellow all over the ground, along with lighter yellow flowers and bursts of purple blooms! ❤🌻We we're helping my grandma move out of her house after my grandpa passed, and she was so excited to see so many flowers on her last-ever visit.
What I love is when a good winters rain brings a river of blossoms & magnificent flowers of different species… then after the grass grows long…the wind blows over the meadows & valleys of grass. The grass moves like the water on the Ocean🌊🤩✨
I remember traveling with my parents through the desert when I was a teenager, and it was in bloom. Beautiful colors and the Joshua trees were very pretty. Someone told us it only happens about every nine years or so.😊
His shows are all archived at Chapman University's Huell Howser website. He donated his entire library to Chapman before his death. I binge-watched 100s of his episodes and it rekindled my affinity for my native state. Unfortunately the body politic in CA is suffering from a collective epidemic of cranial rectosis, otherwise I'd move back. I miss it.
Everything is growing like crazy this spring, from my backyard to the landscaped street medians to the flowers growing alongside the grapes in wine country. What a welcome reprieve after several years of yellow and brown!
As a teenager, I picked a beautiful wildflower off of my families property and I did a detailed painting of it. I never saw that flower again, (other then the painting). I had "Doomed the Bloom".
Thank you Lee for always keeping it real & prioritizing education. I watch your channel &!others because it sickens & angers me to hear about any cruelty or neglect to any animals. I can only imagine the courage it must take to persevere in the work you do every day. I know you show such a small percent of the negative aspects you witness. I’m so grateful you are a an uncompromising advocate for animals & im so grateful for all the positive stories you show. It doesn’t mean there isn’t horrible cruelty, apathy & people suffering who are so sick they take it out on others. I wish it were otherwise. In the meantime, thanks for all that you, your staff, & your animal rescue peers do everyday both behind & on camera.
One of my favorite memories of my childhood took place around 1959 in a very small town on the CA coastline, Moss Beach which abutted Half Moon Bay. The open spaces area were filled with those poppies and it was breathtaking to see. Gold everywhere.
I lived in California for over 35 years moving out in 2019. The flowers on the hill sides are beautiful, but every year when this happens, people on the highways, just pull over on the shoulder and walk up into the hills. It creates such a back-up on the freeways that it’s impossible to even get home. Sometimes, the back up is over 10 miles long. These people that pull over are just so incredibly inconsiderate.
Maybe so ! Sorry if you were (are) inconvenience! At least the “inconsiderate peoples “ took time out of their wish to get to their destinations also and enjoy MOTHER NATURE’S gift of BEAUTY for all to see, smell and enjoy ! Some of us just have to see the reality of MOTHER NATURE’S BEAUTY. INSTEAD OF PICTURES !🥴 🥰😍👵🏻🙀😺😸🖖👽✌️
THANK YOU for educating the public to not walk around amongst the wildflowers! California's deserts are being trampled to death with extreme tourism already. --from a California desert resident
Unfortunately there are still way too many people that either don't know this and continue to behave this way, or even worse, there are those that know what they're doing is wrong but don't care because it means they're able to get their shot for social media.
Hopefully most people will do the right thing and stay on the designated paths. Unfortunately there will be that small percentage of people who cannot help themselves. Some people Always think they are better than others and rules don't apply to them. If the Rangers catch them I hope they're banned for life and given Huge Fines.
California, listen up! Calendars, placemats, pictures for the wall, fabrics, etc. Go wild California with snapshots. Lots of people are not able to get to your state. Bring it to us please.❤
I live in southern CA around a popular super bloom spot. They closed access due to the chaos a few years back. Now I’m seeing people literally pull over on the side of the freeway to get a selfie in a patch of flowers. 🤦🏻♀️😅 They are beautiful, but there are other places to go & just look at them, I don’t get it. This whole selfie culture is out of control.
2019 was great. I went into the canyon earlier in that week before the mega crowds showed up on the weekend. Lookout Point on the Ortega Hwy has a wonderful distant view of the super bloom on those hills.
I grew up in the Bakersfield CALIFORNIA area and I remember how beautiful the hills were in spring time. In particular when we had a “rainy winter “ ! I remember an EASTER SUNRISE our church had up in the hills ! We were surrounded in wild 🌸 flowers 🌺 sooo very very beautiful ! One of my favorite memories! 👵🏻😻😸😺😽🙀🖖👽
Wild flowers growing crazy everywhere in Southern California. There are California sunflowers along our freeways estuaries and open fields. Just beautiful.
It’s a must on your bucket list of places to visit whenever this happens, I’m so lucky it’s only 40 minutes drive from home ( Santa Clarita California)
Thanks for letting everyone know. It was a drag to show up with hundreds of ppl every where and then someone told us that it was on the news and that's why so many ppl. I'm glad everyone gets to enjoy and ugh. Showing my age, we remember the days when we could be with nature with out a city of people and their dogs. I remember when camping was a vacation for poor people. 🤣
God bless ya for giving the shoutout to Huell Howser. I've wanted so badly to get back down south to my native state to take in the superbloom, I'm just hoping it's still going by the time I do get there.
Lancaster is 1 hour north of Los Angeles. And thank you for mentioning Huel Howser!!! May he rest in peace. BTW its called the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
i live in the Northern Mojave Desert near Death Valley, Just driving the 140 mile round trip to the grocery store for me is a visual smorgasbord of color, after nearly 20 years of drought & the last superbloom being 2005 its quite a treat for the eyes.
I spent much of my winter in south western Arizona. With an unusual rain after rain after rain in January and February,, the desert of creosote, mesquite, and saguaro cactus,, and dead dry sand and crust,, turned green. It grew grass.
For those of us who live in the desert a big bloom after early rains is expected. I haven't got to see it in person in California but have in New Mexico with sand verbena and Mexican gold poppies
@Night Owlette we have Mexican gold poppies that are very similar. I know what you mean though, seeing blooms cover a field in person can take your breath away! The Organ Mountains here in Southern New Mexico have a lot of those the last few weeks.
