Wednesday, March 13, two fellow Photochromers and I
ventured south to Lake Elsinore, Walker Canyon
to capture some photos of the
current California Super Bloom!
(Photochromers is our local camera club)
With no shortage of visitors, it was a challenge just to
get to the poppies!
But we managed to find some along the road...
...and even a plein air painter!
Some pretty spectacular sights just along the road!
It really was amazing to see the crowds...on a Wednesday!!!
And, unfortunately, even with signage all about,
people still wandered into the poppies.
A lot of photography going on...trying to capture
their friends amongst the poppies.
Even when they stepped lightly and carefully,
there was a fair amount of tamping down of the flowers.
This gentleman was the second plein air painter we saw.
And then we were in the hills with the poppies in abundance!
I love the orange poppies against that bright blue sky!
My friend Jeanne walked ahead and was photographing
this beautiful sight from a different angle!
The purple flowers were a beautiful compliment to
the orange poppies.
Ohhh...and look what we happened to see!
Yep...a photographer was photographing these models
plus one other...naked...against the poppies!
They were on a knoll above most of the rest of us...
but they definitely drew some attention!
I just couldn't get enough of the poppies against the blue sky!
Lots of dogs on our walk through the poppies...
a puppy in a backpack, and a pack of dogs walking
with their dog walker!
Very well behaved dogs, I might add!
Then there was just a wisp of the moon!
"Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe
of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the
planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.
Take that Poppy seed, for instance;
it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter,
hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk,
but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable,
which will break its bonds and emerge from the
dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling
as to baffle the powers of description."
Celia Thaxter
American writer and poet
More poppies to come!
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