The Transformation of Lopez Canyon -- 5 Years! Now in Living Color

The story so far...

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2019/02/28/lopez-canyon-a-land-of-contrasts/

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2019/03/02/flora-of-lopez-canyon/

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2019/09/08/lopez-canyon-indeed-a-land-of-contrasts/

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2020/06/06/coming-back-to-life/

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2020/06/12/comin-thro-the-rye/

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2020/06/15/high-barberry/

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2021/01/30/winter-gray-summer-glad/

https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2021/09/27/september-waves-her-magic-wands/

June, 2023 Superbloom, in Supergloom. The leaden skies pop the colors. Yellow deerweed, orange chaparral dodder. Bright green bushes are holly-leaf cherry.


I think the red rings are Turkish rugging.


Purple yerba santa.

White buckwheat.

Pea-green sagebrush.

Classic slope effect, on either side of the ridge trail. The green slope is Mt. Sugarloaf.




The scarlet is dudleya.

Deerweed and sagebrush.

Looks like golden yarrow, with a case of gray mold....

Silverpuffs among the deerweed.

Lavender penstemon, pale-yellow-white chamise



Creamy yucca flowers start from purple buds...
opening from a burgundy spike.




Pink buckwheat
























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