I’m sure you realize that there are places to live happily somewhere other than cities or vans! Please don’t be critical of “older” people . . . They may have devoted many years to working hard, doing what they can to improve all our lives, and deserve retirement years of traveling to special places! 💕🤣💕
Hello Maddie, WOW what beauty natures finest, so lovely, fields and fields of beauty ! I lived in California for a little over 17 yrs. and loved it, especially the nature and weather 💕 Thank you for sharing ❤ I was wondering Did you study botany and have a degree, or just an extreme passion ? Take Care 🦋🌷🌻🌼🌸🌺🦋
Texas Bluebonnets are everywhere State flowers are illegal to pick. I used to take a picture book with the sticky film for the one's I used to pick 😂. Out of the pan is perfect and not much cleanup 😊
You made my week, maybe even year, with all these beautiful wild land flowers. Our local area is covered in poppies and other species of wild flowers, but nothing like this presentation! Thank you Maddie!
I went to college in Los Angeles in the 1970's. Even back then, Bakersfield was considered a depressing place to go. I had no idea that there was a preserve there and such a stunning wildflower display! Shows me that even in the depths of human darkness, the beauty of nature will always break through. Thanks so much Maddie for sharing this with us. I am awe struck! 💖🌻💖
You are definitely in your element here, Maddie. I loved seeing your joy amidst such beauty. I found myself getting totally into this amazing super bloom experience. Thanks for taking us along.
Maddie ...Two things just made me extremely happy ...#1 your home, back in California .. welcome Home!! #2 Your overwhelming enthusiasm about our outrageous Bloom this year. Yes we did have another drought ... Don't dispar ...I've lived in Calif ( Marin) all my life...(76 yrs) And I've seen fire ,and I've seen rain.. I've seen droughts ,and I've seen blooms....What goes around ...comes around .. You bring comfort to so many people 🙏. Welcome Home 🌹
Davvero un bellissimo posto coi prati fioriti. Giusta la tua idea di raccogliere pochi fiori perché sono passati tantissimi anni per arrivare a questo risultato . Sei una brava ecologista. E' una spettqcolo questo video sulla natura e sui fiori. Grazie per averlo prodotto,
We love watching your videos, Our family love spending time with nature. We live in the middle of pine barrens in New Jersey. We have allot of beautiful trees and flowers. I live your idea about pressing flowers. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
Good morning RockStar, I love getn to hang out with you here once a week. And you are clearly in your element today. My favorite thing about this planet has always been the colors. Thanks for sharing. PS. 40yrs ago, when I was your age, I didn't have the nomad lifestyle options that y'all got today. I think that's why everyone in the Info Center was so much older than you.
I live in Bakersfield! I travel highway 166 often to go to Nipomo. My mother in law lives there, but she just passed away two days ago. I traveled over a few weeks ago and the bloom was just starting. Making the trip over today and I can’t wait to see all the flowers and the colors on the hillsides. I hope you were able to check out Wind Wolves preserve while you were in this area!? Bakersfield and the southern Central Valley can be beautiful!! 🌼🌸🌼🌻
Welp I've never been that interested in flowers, but your enthusiasm is contagious. So now I'm going to tour the big tulip population the PNW is famous for. Thank for inspiring me :)
You probably mean the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Yes, absolutely go if you're anywhere near it. It's spectacular and well worth the trip. When I lived in Seattle I'd drive up there most years for the day, and if I had time I'd visit several farms. Make sure to check their daily reports to see what's in bloom and where. You'll take lots and lots and lots of photos, for sure.
One day I found this wondrous thing- A yellow daffodil- The first to bloom in early spring, Alone, aloft a hill. I longed to reach it if I could To pluck it for my own; But it belonged beside this wood, Where it had freely grown. Still, had I struggled up that hill, I might have set apart And mounted in my windowsill This yearning of my heart. But sentiments, like flowers, die Uprooted from the soil. How hard it is to leave them lie- To love without love’s spoil. -B. W. P.
Maddie this video has got to be one of my favorites you’ve ever filmed! Those mountains covered with flowers, along with your enthusiasm and knowledge of botany, just took my breath away. Such beauty you share with us all! Thank you and I so wish I was there to see it. Blessings and so much Aloha 🐾🐾🙏💜🌎☮️🌎💜🙏🐾🐾🌺🌺🌺
Maddie, your enthusiasm for wildflowers is contagious. California is so beautiful! I was in Joshua Tree NP a few days ago and I have never seen the park so colorful. The Joshua trees, the Cholla cactus, everything was in full bloom. The South part of the park, near Cottonwood spring, was a festival of colors. Just like you, I took so many pictures. Thank you for this colorful video.
This is what pure joy looks like .. I can totally understand how you must have felt editing and filming this video.. Btw thank you for suggesting Bradining Sweetgrass.. I started reading it today meanwhile you uploaded this video :) 💙
Another of my hobbies, wildflower collecting and propagation. I've done it from Florida to the Midwest. Driving and finding species, oh the excitement. I still have seeds from some of my collections of the '90s till now. You are right, it is a very exciting hobby and a thrill to view the beautiful species in the wild. Thank you so much for sharing the excitement!
They’ve been talking about a Super Bloom in the news lately. It’s been happening in several states including California due to the increase in rain and snow this year. Very cool to see! 😎
Your quiet opening scenes were great. If an artist were to make a painting of those hills I would have thought it was creative choice to add all that color. Truly beautiful. Thanks for sharing it and for letting people know how to take care so future generations can see it too.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I am so thankful that I live near the Carizzo Plain National Monument.and was able to visit these spectacular blooms a couple of weeks ago. I make it a point to go out there every year and this was the most FANTASTIC I have ever seen! 🌻 But - it also is bringing the crowds. I loved your words of wisdom about how to protect these wild areas. I have never seen Soda Lake this full either. I be the night sky was a sight too! Thanks also for telling young people to get out there!
omg MADS I think this is my favorite video of yours... it's so magical and you're so cute (the do you wanna go...for a.....walk! killed me) and the wildflowers are mindblowing! I've been soo excited to see you and the wildflowers and this just boosted my anticipation x10001010010100 fold! I love you, you're incredible, you're such a special human, your love of nature is soo contagious, and it's such a pleasure to follow your journey from afar... see you SOON xoxo love you!
Love your excitement about this super bloom. Especially seeing Elisa’s lack of interest at 18:25. She is definitely NOT a Botanist and hilariously confused.
One of my most favorite places anywhere! Grew up nearby, in San Luis Obispo, and visited in th 1950-60s. In 2017 that lake was indeed dry, though muddy, and the bloom was great. I think even more so this year, though. Such a great place for us botany nerds!
Goodness, you just glow like the bright and beautiful sun. Could you be any more breathtaking, precious Maddie. I absolutely love this video. To watch beauty exploring beauty is a truly wonderful thing. It has been such a joy and privilege to watch your videos; and to share in your experiences, your lessons, your wisdom, your life journey. You continue to create and share a truly special and amazing legacy, Maddie. Keep shining your amazing Light. It truly does illuminate the world. ❤
OMG, Maddie how amazing. The mountains look like a painter poured colour all over. I was as excited as you watching this. What an amazing experience. I hope you got plenty of photos and I hope you draw a lot of them. You would love Western Australia wildflower season, we have some beautiful and amazing flowers 😁
When I was a kid soooooooo many years ago, we used to go to a place in the Sierras called Buttercup Valley. OMG, this video caused that joy to flood back! Gracias 🌻🌿☘️🌾💐🌱🌵🌺🌸🌼🥀
What a beautiful and amazing video is all that I can say love it 🥰 glad you are enjoying your time picking flowers 🌺 love you and your amazing channel prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John e❤❤❤
Wow, stunning display of wildflowers, almost like it was arranged by someone, one hillside indigo blue, another sunflower yellow, yet another crimson red (sorry if I have the hues wrong, I've never been good with that). I've never actually gone wildflower "hunting", but I have gone on hikes noted for their wildflowers at certain times of year, and have stopped my car to marvel at wildflowers I happened to be driving past. I also garden and always make sure to have lots of different colorful flowers (right now gazanias are my favorite and I've I've several dozen seedlings started that I'm going to have to figure out where to put). The only time I've been near Bakersfield was years ago driving up from San Diego to Lake Tahoe with a friend during college break to go skiing, but it was winter so no flower displays (but we did partake of that delightful cow manure and fertilizer smell that pervades that part of the San Juaquin Valley that certainly makes a strong impression on you). I've also been in Israel in late spring when all these trees erupt in spectacular displays of color as they flower all at once, blue, orange, red, yellow. Great video, Maddie, and yours is probably my favorite vanlife channel these days. And Eliza just seems to have this presence about her, like she's wise or knowing or something. I bet she can read your moods and knows when you're happy, sad, pensive, energetic, tired, etc.
That was so beautiful. I have never seen anything like that before. Who knew? You did! So looking at the mountains, I saw yellow, orange and purple. So can you tell me what those flowers were? The orange maybe poppies? The purple maybe lupine?
Great episode Maddie. How beautiful to see those plains filled with living color, and even the littles rows next to where you were parked. I’m a “Blue Plumbago” fanatic!
Maddy I’ve been following you from the beginning of your journey! It’s wonderful to see how happy you are! Love this video and glad you reinforced how important it is to protect the wildflowers. ❤
Thanks so much for telling us the names of the flowers. I love how you can pronounce those hard words so beautifully. 😊My Mom was a docent at Henry Coe State Park for 25yrs. Wild flowers hikes were her favorite to guide. ❤
Just went and saw this outside my hometown of Paso Robles CA. Absolutely beautiful. One thing concerned me though, there were NO bees!😮 It was a little eerie. 😢😢
oh my goodness Maddie - this was beyond magic! As you know, I make RU-vid videos in a similar spirit as yours and while I _was_ on the road, I have now found myself on an expected detour that meant I couldn't make it to places like this - so this felt like being able to vicariously live through you and go to a place my heart has ached to be. Thank you so so much for prioritising conservation of these spaces in your sharing - so so so so important! Also, it made me smile when you were saying "how can people not get so excited about things like this?!" I am the exact same way!!! (I also take forever to go anywhere because I'm always stopping lol). Send my love
What a paradise! Thanks for these beautiful impressions! I live in Germany and I know that we have beautiful meadows full of flowers in the Bavarian Alps in spring and summer. Though not spreading over such a large area as this here! The biggest amount of wildflowers I saw in Galicia, Northern Spain, in May, walking on the spiritual Camino between Tuy and Santiago de Compostela. There were so many species of wild flowers in different colors as I had never seen before and I took many pictures of them! But the landscape wasn't as bare, there were also forests, little villages etc. Such an open landscape full of meadows as there in California is rare, at least in Europe as far as I know. For here normally you need a lot of sheeps or cows to prevent an area from getting covered with trees and becoming a forest! This seemes to be the natural way, only high up in the mountains the trees stay away. But as you say the earth is not very fertile, this might be the reason that makes this paradise possible, as well as the climate. Fortunately, for forests are beautiful too, but everywhere forest would be boring. E v e r y kind of landscape has its special beauty!
OMG! The colors on the mountains is an amazing painting of nature! Mahalo for taking me on this awesome journey chasing wildflowers. I wanted to make a lei for your van.
I've been watching a long time and wow you really knocked this one out of the park. The happiness these plants bring you is translated beautifully into this video. I loved the lesson in botany and watching you two experience so much joy.
Ahh thank you so so much for sharing these spots! I am looking forward to going next week to see my plateau of mountain sunflowers n then end of May for my Indian paintbrush. I also take a drive in august at higher altitudes to see the flower blooms that are almost finished on the valley floor. All these spots have become my yearly must-do’s…it brings me so much joy and I feel a sense of loss if I can’t complete these drives as it’s another whole year to see them again. Oh and I forgot the best of all: apple blossom(which is coming up in two weeks). Growing up on an orchard, I find myself drawn each year for a chance of smells from my childhood. It does make me sad as I miss the wonderful times growing up in the orchard with all my family and each year meeting the families of returning harvesters. Thank you Maddie for the awesome pictures and for the reminder of pressing flowers; something I use to do as a child n need to get back to. I find on occasion 4 leaf cloves I’ve pressed in books n along with it the memories of laying in the grass for the clover hunt with a friend.
Great and joyful video! There sure are beautiful flowers in the country sides. The desert candle looks very beautiful. I've never seen anything like that before.
This is the happiest I have seen someone in a long time. I can relate- I grew up in New York and before I first travelled to the Rockies I remember seeing lupine and beargrass in a book and thinking those are really different and beautiful. I did find them and see them and bought a packet of seeds to try and grow back home. They never grew but I have seen them in person many times since then. What really sticks in my mind is how vivid that memory is despite being over 35 years ago. And every time I see those flowers it brings back that memory and makes me smile. So often in life it's the little things that you remember and make you want to go back to a particular place.
Pretty amazing. And, perfect timing for you to be at these places to capture the nature for us. I bet you’re one of the few on YT that is featuring the super bloom!! Thanks
I just want to say that I watched this video first thing when I woke up this morning and it literally made me cry tears of joy throughout the video not just seeing how happy you were in your element but also seeing how beautiful the Earth is in that knowing that that is so close to my home I carried that feeling throughout the day with me and it made me feel so warm and happy and I just wanna say thank you for that! Stay golden you are a true angel XOXO
