Explorer 1
Explorer 1
Day 4 - part 1
My friend Rudi who had accompanied me on the prior days adventures left for home today so it was just me and my lovely wife Mina. I suggested a more easier trip today for the two of us out in the Death Valley area. To my pleasure and surprise she agreed with enthusiasm so off we went in the Tacoma.
Plans were to travel out of Big Pine up over the Inyo's on the well graded Death Valley Road, past the Eureka Sand Dunes and Crankshaft Junction. Then over to the Racetrack up over Hunter Mountain and down past Owen's lake and then back home through Lone Pine.
A lot of miles and territory to cover especially in one day with a late start, but hey, we at least felt young so why not go for it!
With all the snow and rains this past winter it has been a long and amazing wildflower season. At one point along the way my wife commented that this looked like someone's garden, I guess she was right, The Eternal One is also a great gardener!
One flower I hadn't seen before or may had seen but not is such abundance was this small yellow plan that gave a golden hue to the hillsides.
Upon closer examination it was a very small and thin plan with a tiny flower:
Once it dies and sheds it's color it becomes this strange thing:
Never before have I seem such a variety different flowers all in bloom at one time. Even the dry almost dead looking beaver tail cactus were showing their glory.
Here are some other examples if what was blooming, sorry I'm not more familiar with their names.
And of course the prettiest flower of them all!
My friend Rudi who had accompanied me on the prior days adventures left for home today so it was just me and my lovely wife Mina. I suggested a more easier trip today for the two of us out in the Death Valley area. To my pleasure and surprise she agreed with enthusiasm so off we went in the Tacoma.
Plans were to travel out of Big Pine up over the Inyo's on the well graded Death Valley Road, past the Eureka Sand Dunes and Crankshaft Junction. Then over to the Racetrack up over Hunter Mountain and down past Owen's lake and then back home through Lone Pine.
A lot of miles and territory to cover especially in one day with a late start, but hey, we at least felt young so why not go for it!
With all the snow and rains this past winter it has been a long and amazing wildflower season. At one point along the way my wife commented that this looked like someone's garden, I guess she was right, The Eternal One is also a great gardener!
One flower I hadn't seen before or may had seen but not is such abundance was this small yellow plan that gave a golden hue to the hillsides.
Upon closer examination it was a very small and thin plan with a tiny flower:
Once it dies and sheds it's color it becomes this strange thing:
Never before have I seem such a variety different flowers all in bloom at one time. Even the dry almost dead looking beaver tail cactus were showing their glory.
Here are some other examples if what was blooming, sorry I'm not more familiar with their names.
And of course the prettiest flower of them all!
