Natural History Wanderings

Michael Frye's In the Moment: A Landscape Photography Blog has a new post for Hite Cove and the Merced River Canyon. He reports:

The flowers near the beginning of the Hite’s Cove Trail are near their peak, as are the other poppy patches down near the bottom of the canyon, especially across the river about three miles east of Briceburg. The bloom is spreading higher on some of the hillsides, and I’m hoping that trend will continue and we’ll see whole hillsides covered in orange like we did two years ago.

The redbuds have also made progress. About 60 percent have started to bloom, though most of those are not fully out yet. I’d guess that they’ll peak in a week or two, but you can find some photogenic specimens now.

See an excellent photo of Hite Cove Poppies and the full post at: Hite's Cove Poppies « In the Moment: Michael Frye's Landscape Photography Blog In the Moment: Michael Frye's Landscape Photography Blog