I drove to Los Angeles and back yesterday – a little 800 mile journey – to take my kids back to school. On the way back I decided to try to find the California Poppy Reserve in Antelope Valley that I’d heard about. Armed only with a very vague state map I left I-5 on Hughes Lake Road and wandered north and east into and across Antelope Valley before getting lucky and finding a sign.
It appears that I missed the peak of the display. There didn’t appear to be too many flowers left at the official Preserve. However, I did find this field a mile or two away.
The best bunch of poppies that I saw was high on a green ridge above I-5 near the Grapevine, where there were so many that it looked like it had just snowed poppies.
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April 5, 2004
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To LA and back
I drove to Los Angeles and back yesterday – a little 800 mile journey – to take my kids back to school. On the way back I decided to try to find the California Poppy Reserve in Antelope Valley that I’d heard about. Armed only with a very vague state map I left I-5 on Hughes Lake Road and wandered north and east into and across Antelope Valley before getting lucky and finding a sign.
It appears that I missed the peak of the display. There didn’t appear to be too many flowers left at the official Preserve. However, I did find this field a mile or two away.
The best bunch of poppies that I saw was high on a green ridge above I-5 near the Grapevine, where there were so many that it looked like it had just snowed poppies.
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April 5, 2004 Posted by gdanmitchell | Commentary | Comments Off on To LA and back