I came back past those hills on my return from Death Valley and Southern California last weekend. Oddly, the Pacheco Pass hills looked positively green compared to the other places I had come from. I do, however, think that we are pretty much at or just barely past the peak of spring flowers in these particular hills, as there is a definitely underlayer of dry brown grass coming in now.

Pacheco State Park is an interesting but in some ways challenging place to photograph flowers. There are sure plenty of them if you go at the right time - and, as an added bonus, there are tons of lovely oak trees nestled in beautiful little valleys and hollows and along stark ridgelines. But it is almost always very windy here. (I know this from the time many years ago when I used to struggle to keep my old VW van on the road through here on return trips from the Sierra. I guess that dates me!)

Thanks for stopping by,

Dan