Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve SNR, Los Angeles County, CA, 4/9/2008
In spring of 2008 I spent several days exploring and photographing the flowers at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve in Los Angeles County, CA. The abundance of flowers at the reserve varies greatly from year to year depending upon the weather. 2008 was quite beautiful with plenty of poppies! There was also plenty of wind the first few days of my trip, making photography very challenging. But with all that wind came some dramatic clouds like the ones seen here over these rolling hills! The Poppy Reserve is at an elevation ranging from 2,600 to 3,000 feet above sea level in the Mojave Desert climate zone. In 1903 the California poppy became the state flower of California.
