Desert Wildflowers along Henderson Canyon Road, Borrego Springs, California. March 2017.

A first glimpse at the 2017 wildflowers in Anza Borrego

Last weekend we drove down to Borrego Springs to see how the wildflowers in the desert are doing this year. For weeks, people have been talking about a potential “super bloom” in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, since it was a very wet winter and the last storm at the end of February alone brought up to 1.5 inches (~40mm) of rain to the desert.

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Algodones Dunes, Imperial County, California.

Algodones Dunes

One of our “summer storm” excursions into the back country ultimately led us all the way into Imperial County and Algodones Dunes. We originally only wanted to visit Santa Ysabel and Laguna Mountains, but from there we saw that the desert was overcast too. While Alex and Toni wandered into the dunes I used the …

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