Superbloom

As our time in California is coming to an end it seems appropriate to touch on the subject of superblooms. Whatever springtime you are experiencing is made insignificant by the mere name of our superbloom. What is a superbloom exactly? Well, exactly what it sounds like - a bloom that is super. After years of drought, California has had one of the wetter years on record with spectacular results. The bit where everyone is using way more water than they need to now that the drought is over is too bad. However, the bit where the dessert has erupted in color is pleasing. It has been pretty much all anyone wants to talk about. And I don't blame them because it is much more pleasant to talk about flowers than politics. I would say there is full on flower fever. My hope for California is that the current obsession with flowers continues even as the superbloom wilts and fades to brown. Flowers seem like a healthy peaceful obsession.

We have gotten to see some of the blooms ourselves. Hillsides smeared with yellow. Deserts tinted green. Cacti erupting in reds. We have also gotten to participate firsthand in the less pretty side of superblooms - namely securing a campsite in the desert. Thankfully, thanks to systematic perseverance we had a great camping trip at Joshua Tree National Park where the moon was full, the flowers crimson, the joshua trees nostalgic of my youth, the desert sand soft under our slumbering masses, the stars familiar and the night air windy and crisp. So with that I hope all your lives are filled with majestic deserts and superblooms.

Do rocks get any better than these?

No they don't

Ryan mountain antics

Superbloom drive by