Desert five spot bloom / the head of Rainbow Canyon / drive back from Death Valley
January bloom / Hurricane Hilary moisture / into the new year
Charlotte's phacelia / high up on a canyon slope / near the Five Sisters
Last Chance Range canyon / Death Valley monkey flower / only on limestone
Desert five spot bulb / a near perfect pink circle / Inyo or Coso
Giant nolina / only blooms every so often / but when it does, wow
Usually pink / for some reason color fades / cliffside miracle
Circular playa / Ubehebe Crater bloom / northern Death Valley
Alabama Hills / Scarlet monkeyflower glow / first to bloom in spring
High altitude child / only above the treeline / Sky pilot abode
Lil monkeyflower / next to a seasonal stream / Buttermilk country
Darwin Plateau field / Death Valley National Park / seldom trod desert
Mojave aster / blooming deep in the winter / base of the Inyos
Sierra eastside / California poppy / spills over the hill
Lil Desert five spot / gorgeous red dots in the bulb / smaller than usual
Yellow cups delight / just enough precipitation / at Rainbow Canyon
Eastern Sierra / a Nolina unfurling / perfect presentation
Unusual color / mix of Crimson and Alpine / columbine display
Nolina syrup / bees bump into blissfully / not every spring
A Mount Tom background / Anderson buttercup bloom / Buttermilk country
Crimson columbine / next to Alpine variant / upper end of range
Little Lakes Valley / spring comes deep in the summer / larkspur with a view
A bee gets ready / to dive into a flower / sweet nectar syrup
Snowbrush habitat / in the Eastern Sierra / base of cool canyon
Beavertail cactus / in the Alabama Hills / Mount Whitney background
An Owl's clover / Red Rock Canyon State Park spring / right off the 14
Ranger button field / bees just can't get enough of / just along the trail