Sunday, April 5, 2009

Carpets of Colour


This is the time of year when wildflowers carpet the landscape of the Central Coast in vivid blues, yellows, purples and golds. We always try to find time for a drive around Santa Margarita and Pozo to view this annual (assuming enough rainfall) event. Lupine, poppies, owl's clover, wild larkspur, scarlet pimpernel, buttercups, shooting stars, and dozens more - including those tiny, beautiful light blue ones that I can never remember the name of.

For about 20 years I lived near Pozo in the eastern part of San Luis Obispo County - it was terribly hot in the summer (100's+) and miserably cold in the winter (teens at night - in an uninsulated mobile home with one small wood stove for heat) but for a few months in the spring, when the wildflowers bloomed and everything was green, it was a delight!

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