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Re: Carrizo Plain Flowers

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copeg wrote:Created a statistical model using data from Carrizo weather station and dated photos from flicker (to rank annual wildflower showings) - model predicts wildflowers this year to be ~8-9 on a scale of 1-10 (a 10 being similar to 2010). Math says one thing...only time will tell whether the wildflowers agree.
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Math says one thing...only time will tell whether the wildflowers agree.
Exactly! Wildflowers do not follow any set rules, have visited areas where the wildflowers were outstanding, even though it was considered a below average snow year, and then during an above average year, the same place had no wildflowers, there are just to many variable to be able to precisely predict exactly what one can expect, from one canyon or valley to the next. :(
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Wildflowers do not follow any set rules
I'm not convinced. FWIW model takes into account more than just annual rainfall (weather station data is pretty comprehensive), and it's validations are solid. Unfortunately it's fit on a limited amount of data, and if it's wrong maybe we can learn something. But if it's wrong flowers could be nill, and to quote your post above:
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Here is a page of photos from Monday. Lots of flowers, just not a ton of variety yet. Temblor Mtns were gorgeous. Heading out there again today.

http://www.sierramountainphotography.com/id140.html

A couple of samples:

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Thanks for the pictures Mountaineer. :thumbsup:
Carrizo is supposed to receive some showers on Monday, hopefully that will help things pop in the next couple of weeks. [-o<
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Variety was a little better today. These were along Hwy 58 west of Carrizo.
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Those are some really stunning photos. I really had no idea the wildflower bloom could be so amazing there. I just think of Carrizo as this really dry place where the San Andreas fault is so nicely expressed in the landscape. I guess I should head over there for a look, but I'm now headed north to the SE Bay Area for 8 days in the field teaching (Sunol Regional Wilderness). Sunol RW during some years has some really amazing blooms on the parts of the park that are underlain by serpentinite. Perhaps this will be one of those years. We'll see.
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This is the kind of bloom we are waiting for GB, it has been six years, but as you can see, it is quite spectacular. Even though DV was pretty this year, it was just a big carpet of yellow flowers, my preference is carpets of multiple colors like this. :nod:
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Even though DV was pretty this year, it was just a big carpet of yellow flowers
I concur. I heard all these people screaming about a DV "SUPERBLOOM!!!!!!!". I dropped what I was doing and went. Kind of disappointed. Lots of yellow flowers. The only variety I found was in the drainage ditch along the sides Beatty Rd. Not real conducive to photography. I did get a couple of shots where the yellow flowers created a nice contrast and FINALLY got the snow-covered mountains reflection at Badwater Basin! :)

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Speaking of Carrizo Plain, it has been absolutely spectacular there the last 18 months or so. I have done more photography there than anywhere else in that time. We might have to start a thread JUST for CP images.
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Nice photos, Jody! Love the contrasting colors.
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