Posted on 02/23/2016 2:42:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is currently a riot of color: More than 20 different kinds of desert wildflowers are in bloom there after record-breaking rains last October.
It's the best bloom there since 2005, according to Abby Wines, a spokeswoman for Death Valley National Park, and "it just keeps getting better and better."
The flowers started poking up in November, but the particularly colorful display emerged late last month in the park, which is mainly in California but stretches across the Nevada border. On Twitter and Instagram, park visitors have taken to calling it a "superbloom."
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These flowers look like the annuals we get in our front yard in Phoenix. We call them African Daisies.
The boundless ability of life to pop up anywhere on earth given the slightest encouragement (in this case, a little extra rain), makes us think for a moment that the planet might survive after all.
Maybe we arent doomed after all.
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My first trip to San Diego I never left the waterfront hotel area and I thought it was beautifully lush.
My second trip I got a car and as soon as I pulled out into the surrounding area I realized I was in a dusty brown desert. It’s is amazing what sprinklers can achieve.
My third trip was at the tail end of an El Nino and the whole town was blooming like your photo. God is in control.
Seems like that is exactly what is happening.
nice
Freeman Dyson, one of the truly great figures in modern science, wrote an essay called:
HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
http://edge.org/conversation/heretical-thoughts-about-science-and-society
One of the things he says in this essay is that the Sahara Desert used to be wet and that GW (if it is GW) most likely will make the Sahara Desert wet again, and that this is something to be preferred.
When I was working I spent a lot of my time out in the west at nearly all the major range and test facilities. There were places where you could see blowing snow early morning and sunshine and hot in the afternoon.
When I had to go to one of the test ranges in California, I’d fly into Vegas and drive over through Death Valley. Impressive place with its own harsh beauty.
To me one of the great things I am happy to have seen out west is a cactus plant bloom. Somewhere on my computer are really good pictures of some.
Cactus blooming is wildly colorful, almost surreal.
Nature is nothing, if not resilient.
I love Death Valley. I used to live in Las Vegas and have visited Death Valley at least 20 times, maybe more.
I have even camped there once, parking my car hiking up a slope and setting up my tent on a flat piece of ground. I dont remember if it was legal or not, since it was not in a campground.
Several times I have taken friends and family to Scottys Castle.
In Arizona, the Saguaro cactus is protected by their designating the state flower which blooms on it. Usually in the middle of May and only for about two weeks. The rest of the desert is usually in full bloom right before then as well. Harsh beauty is the perfect way to describe it.
Nature is nothing, if not resilient.
Did you ever stop by and visit the borax mining/processing area where they still have the old ovens and processing equipment?
I remember as a young boy in Georgia, my aunt used to subscribe a magazine called “Arizona Highways” (IIRC). I used to page through every one of them looking at all the fantastic desert shots. I don’t even know if the magazine still exists. I guess that’s my next internet search.
Thanks!
Considering that movement sprung from commies who went ‘underground’ in the late 50s and surfaced in the 70s/80s, and saw it as a powerful road to political and economic power, you are 100% right.
https://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/9/23/climate-movement-drops-mask-admits-communist-agenda/
Yes. Harmony.
Reminds me of the old “Death Valley Days” introduced and sometimes narrated by Ronald Reagan and sponsored by Twenty Mule Team Borax (IIRC)
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