Natural History Wanderings

Michael Frye has a post on Poppies and Redbuds along the Merced River Canyon. Here are a few highlights:

• I drove up the canyon on Wednesday and saw scattered patches of poppies. By yesterday afternoon the bloom had progressed considerably, with larger, denser swaths of orange on the hillsides.
• The best blooms right now are in the usual early-season spots: along the north side of the canyon about two to four miles east of Briceburg (where the Telegraph Fire burned in 2008), on Grandy’s Hill (on the south side of the canyon about two miles west of the Ferguson rock slide detour), and near the beginning of the Hite’s Cove Trail
• redbuds are starting to bloom down along the river in this same area.

See his full post at: A Good Year for Poppies? and follow his reports and photography articles at: In the Moment: Michael Frye’s Landscape Photography Blog.