Sunday Nature Stills – 03/06/2016

We took a quick trip to Death Valley this week to check on the wildflowers.  This winter, the area got significant rain for the first time since 2005, so we were hoping for some nice color.  We noted some small patches of purple and white along the way, but there was mostly large areas of Desert Gold stretching across the valley floor up to the base of the mountains.  It was quite nice.

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Sunday Nature Stills – 02/21/2016

I was just thinking about climate diversity and how seasons have a significantly different meaning for different climates.

1) Several thousand year old Bristlecone pine tree growing at high elevation and under harsh seasonal extremes.

2) Low elevation deciduous forest with mind seasons.

3) Tropical rainforest with little seasonal variations.

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