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<\/a><\/p>\nI pulled over every time there was a turnout, to see what I could see.<\/p>\n
At first, I would only see a flower or two, here and there in the sand.<\/p>\n I think these are called desert lilies.<\/p>\n I liked the tracks in the sand around this one.<\/p>\n Not all the flowers are white.<\/p>\n There are yellow flowers.<\/p>\n Lots of yellow flowers.<\/p>\n I saw these just outside Anza-Borrego Desert State Park – outside being the key word. Although I thought I got up early, I didn’t get up early enough. By the time I got there, the parking lot was full, and parking at all the trailheads that I could find were also full.<\/p>\n Oh, well. I parked on the road outside. That made it easy enough to take a picture of the park sign.<\/p>\n The desert was quite splendid. I was taken with these clusters of mixed plants.<\/p>\n They reminded me of bouquets or arrangements for fancy dinners.<\/p>\n There were cactuses here, too, but I didn’t see as many as I saw in Arizona.<\/p>\n There were prickly pear surrounded by was looks like baby’s breath that would work for Baby Huey.<\/p>\n The ocotillo was in bloom, too.<\/p>\n I loved wandering around in the flowers and snapping pictures whenever it struck my fancy.<\/p>\n In this shot, you can see how the flowers were clustered.<\/p>\n Look how green the hills were! This is quite a different look for the desert in this area.<\/p>\n These lavender-colored flowers are different from any I’ve seen before.<\/p>\n These pink ones remind me of snap dragons.<\/p>\n These remind me of cornflowers – only white.<\/p>\n After a few hours of wandering around, I needed the bathroom. I stopped in at the library. Not only did they have a bathroom that they didn’t mind sharing, they had a book sale.<\/p>\n I thought this might help me plan my travels as I made my way up the coast. Then it was time to head back. This time I stopped at the turnouts on the other side of the road.<\/p>\n This is the badlands.<\/p>\n This area is all about off-road vehicle fun.<\/p>\n Quad cycle fun.<\/p>\n Dirt bike fun.<\/p>\n The scenery is stunning.<\/p>\n Then it was time to head home. There’s the Salton Sea in the distance. I drove until I got to route 89 and then turned left.<\/p>\n Home again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to an unusually wet winter, California was experiencing a “super bloom”. \u00a0 I’m sure you heard about it – it was all over\u00a0the news. I did a quick Google search and got about 6,620,000 hits in 0.49 seconds. One place that was mentioned over and over in the reports was Anza-Borrego Desert State Park … Continue reading Super Bloom!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[795,796,794],"class_list":["post-9461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anza-borrega-desert-state-park","tag-badlands","tag-super-bloom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n