Wildflowers

The baby blue eyes, goldfields, and fiddlenecks are looking fabulous, but do proceed with caution when exploring the remote area.

Filaree and other favorites are looking fab. As for the area’s orange icons? Patience is the order of the day (but yes, a few poppies have bloomed).

The Jane S. Pinheiro Interpretive Center at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve has wildflower displays and excellent information, too.

Helmed by the Theodore Payne Foundation, the recording provides regularly updated messages about where to find some of Southern California’s prettiest petals.

Our hopes are “budding” that a big and blossom-packed season is just ahead.