All the talk this spring was of the “super bloom” in Death Valley National Park.  After several years of drought in California, we had a surprisingly wet winter, and it was enough to fuel an explosion of flowers not seen in Death Valley in over a decade.

Officially, the wildflowers that rioted this spring onto the Carrizo Plain in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, were not a super bloom.  But compared to the “non-bloom” we experienced when my husband and I first visited a few years ago, what we saw this year in late March was pretty spectacular.  See for yourself below: