We started out with a drive up the Angeles Crest Highway – way up into the San Gabriel mountains. It was cold, a foggy, most of the drive was in a cloud. Which can be beautiful, but also very slow going. So instead of going all the way to Wrightwood (not sure we could have, the road may still be closed). We took the back road down to Palmdale.
I think this is from the Sand fire in 2016, the burnt remnants of many trees. With the rain we’ve had, new growth will occur- of course it will take a long time for such trees to regrow – but nature has a lot of time.
Water, running in all the canyons! Look at that gorgeous yellow green! Love it.
So we were near Palmdale, why not continue to Lancaster and visit the poppies again. I am following the FB group – CA flower tipline. A number of people said, that all around the reserve there are gorgeous flowers.
There certainly are! We drove down Ave. G and even experience the Musical Road. It is a very short stretch where grooves in the road produce music when driving over them at 55 mph. It works, it really works. Go check out the link, there is the original advertisement from Honda.
Initially we stopped along 110 st, no one around us, although we had seen other cars along the way. And yes, carpets of orange, with purple, and yellow. It was a windy and rather overcast day. so the poppies were in different stages of either open or closed.
My camera is great for video, but I’ve never used it as such – so back to the phone it was, you can hear the wind, you can see the masses of flowers.
Here is my artsy shot, the car, the flowers, the field of solar energy panels – the bird flying and not getting fried by said panels.
I will never share these images on social media. The Nanny Karens will come out screaming about how we are destroying nature! Neither of us were on the flowers, there is plenty of space between the plants. Also, those same Karens are nasty elitists – they want the beauty for themselves – they don’t wan the unwashed masses to come out and enjoy nature. What they don’t understand, is that if the unwashed masses never show up – they won’t care and they’ll be happy to pave this all over. I’m sure by now you’ve figured out – my patience for the ‘do-gooders’ of the world ended a long time a go.
On to another area that did have plenty of people. there were strips of cultivated land interspersed with wildflowers.
Like us, these people weren’t sampling the flowers, they were standing between them. Also, lets say a few get trampled – I doubt the Karens complain when wild animals come by and do the same- that is ok – because they are part of nature – unlike us who for some reason are aliens on this planet. I’ll quote a Jewish saying: עבורי נברא העולם -For me the world was created. Yup, without humans – it’s all pointless – sure we should be good stewards of the earth, but we must enjoy it, and at times that means taming nature. At other times it means working within it, but not pretending it is some special God available only to Karens.
So share I will, I can’t get enough of this beauty.
Or this!
At the busy spot there were some people selling honey. Of course I bought some. He had Lavender, CA poppy, avocado and wildflower. I bought the Lavender, it has a slight scent and taste of lavender! Incredible. It is raw, not cooked in any way and it is amazing!
Then we drove the back roads, by Elizabeth lake and Lake Hughes. We wanted to go through Caustic, but the road was closed, so back down San Francisquito Canyon we went. Had coffee in Valencia and then home. 140 miles in 4 hours of absolute fun and enjoyment. Yes, I love CA- we have a gazillion problems but we also have a lot of wonderful things to be grateful for. I hate the politicians and bureaucrats – but I try to minimize as much as I can their reach into my life.
Leah