Sunday, April 25, 2010

Poppy Season Is Here in the Antelope Valley!


Last night we had company for dinner, our two friends who own my local quilt shop, Bolts in the Bathtub, and Nancy Bednar, a well-known sewing instructor who is teaching classes at the shop. With JoAnn Pugh-Gannon, Nancy wrote the "Encyclopedia of Sewing Machine Techniques" and was a Bernina educator in a former life....

Our Antelope Valley is known for the beautiful and plentiful poppy displays that come this time of year. Not every year is a good year and the past few have been sparse showings because we have had so little rain. But we had quite a bit of rain (for us) this year and the poppies are considered to be among the top three outstanding bloom seasons since 1968!


Above is a picture taken on Avenue L at approximately 80th Street West. The shot is taken toward the city of Lancaster, which shows in the background.


Here's a close-up of a few of the beauties, along with some other wildflowers that sort of crashed the party....

We were driving to Sacramento today to visit family -- I have a two month old (that's almost brand new!) great nephew who we will see for the first time and Dan will be doing some computer work at my mom's. So we continued northward, through the grapevine.



Another poppy close-up.....













Along the grapevine there were patches of blue flowers with small clusters of poppies interspersed; really pretty color contrast -- I know I can use that in a quilt!




We'll be in the Folsom/Placerville area for a couple of days; will probably go to a couple of quilt shops and maybe do some other shopping -- there's a DSW right across the street from our hotel!

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