Having an Adventure!

Thanks! to Magie for subbing for me for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I'm missing out on wildflowers in my own yard!



This post is the first in a series of posts about how I spent my Spring Vacation -- on a Wildflowers Trip! (I'm actually on the trip right now.) This time I'm camping for 2.5 weeks with my brother who hasn't actually camped since he was barely pubescent (not even for reals in the Army).

The plan started out such that we were going to be doing a week or maybe two, starting around March 9th. We were going to follow a particular route down 101, then east (to see some wildflowers) on the way to the Carrizo Plain National Monument (to see some wildflowers) then farther east and south to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve (to see wildflowers) then south through Joshua Tree National Forest to the visitor center (to see wildflowers) then south and west to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (to see LOTS of wildflowers).

That plan changed somewhat when I saw a geology field trip available at ABDSP on the 7th. So, leave earlier than planned, bypass the initial wildflowers, do geology, do flowers in the park, then back-track through the wildflowers on the way back north.

The geology trip was good, but the flowers are hunkered down, looking for several warm days in a row so they can actually bloom! So, plan changed again in mid-trip. (Hey! We have 2.5 weeks!) After almost a week in the park, we'll be visiting our step-sister (who has a place in the mountains that looks out over the park and the Salton Sea) for a couple of days, then head back into the park in hopes that the bloom will be getting better as the weather warms. Of course, we'll follow the wildflower trail heading back north, too.