ChildofVision.com 2017: A photographic journey
Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, Palmdale, California
The California Poppy is the state flower of California and it grows wild in many places. The Poppy Reserve north-west of palmdale is a protected area that experiences large poppy blooms every spring. This year was an especailly large bloom because of the unusually wet winter. Visiting the poppies is a spring ritual for a LOT of people every year. We got a late start this morning and ended up in a 2-mile long line of cars entering the park. It was a little before the peak bloom so I tried to pick a view that would have a little foreground interest, plus show the large fields stretching off in the background. I liked the people on the trail to give it a sense of scale. You have to stay on the trail so the angles are a little limited. The flowers in the foreground are Purple Sand Verbena and Lasthenia also known as Goldfields.