# The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring (Tra la!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248 "2019-03-17T04:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/1 "2019-03-17T04:19:06Z")
Arizona had an unusually cool and wet winter, and we are having quite a nice bloom of wildflowers. My wife and I went to Peridot Mesa, an old cinder cone on the San Carlos Apache reservation today to take photos: [![CloudApp](https://f.v1.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/120s1e0A0A1t1t2F2F2B/DSC_5311.jpeg "DSC\_5311") ](https://cl.ly/YEuKbxpm) [https://cl.ly/019ee3e53e81](https://cl.ly/019ee3e53e81) [https://cl.ly/ed73b79d9e44](https://cl.ly/ed73b79d9e44) It was very windy, so I took advantage of it, and used my 14-stop ND filter to take a 2-minute exposure - my “Monet” shot: [![CloudApp](https://f.v1.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/0c2n0d441H0s2v1V3S1x/DSC_5329.jpeg "DSC\_5329") ](https://cl.ly/6quk1y2D) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/2 "2019-03-17T04:28:05Z")
Oh those are so beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/3 "2019-03-17T04:33:29Z")
Thank you! I’m happy with the images I got, which is good, because the estimated 2.5 hour drive actually took over 3.5 hours each way, due to the traffic from the Renaissance Festival. It was a very long day, but the scenery was beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/4 "2019-03-17T04:52:40Z")
I was in Anza Borrego Thursday and the bloom is gong great down there. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rmnDpcNDJpPL8408KKoDyZo714JIbtxbIIMGHvMhvWJj_mbcSCG7iq-89TUyyGNqum0HhvfWCWwdanMIzCxBUbnc9HcRbs8pM0fovIRqz2Lw86Jc5sBPqw0O7Qj_jtKVdnboV0x_i-s=w600-h315-p-k "New item by Dave Carter") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/SCYNB8a9mi32GC5Y8) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/5 "2019-03-17T07:19:42Z")
Very nice. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/6 "2019-03-17T12:10:56Z")
Gorgeous photos, guys. We’re off to the Central Valley today and I hope to see a few wildflowers. There’ll be nothing like that sea of poppies and lupine, but maybe I’ll see enough to take a photo. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/7 "2019-03-17T13:52:29Z")
Daffodils are popping out all around the county here, and my forsythia are starting to bloom. I’ll believe it’s spring when it’s above freezing for several mornings in a row… ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/8 "2019-03-17T14:59:54Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I was in Anza Borrego Thursday and the bloom is gong great down there. > > [https://photos.app.goo.gl/SCYNB8a9mi32GC5Y8](https://photos.app.goo.gl/SCYNB8a9mi32GC5Y8) Anza Borrego has been on my wildflower to-do list for a long time. It’s too far from me to be spontaneous, though. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/9 "2019-03-18T00:39:46Z")
A few more. Something out of Dr. Seuss: [DSC\_5348](https://cl.ly/ba79eeb0c5a7) Still snow on the mountains: [https://cl.ly/52e29f70043d](https://cl.ly/52e29f70043d) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/10 "2019-03-18T01:42:39Z")
There is not one decent YouTube clip of Bugs Bunny singing, “April Showers,” so I’ll have to sing it myself. _Ahem_ Mi, mi , mi… When April show-uhs may come-a your waaaaaaay, they bring-a the flow-uhs that-a bloom in-a Maaaaaaay… . How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/11 "2019-03-18T02:22:05Z")
So that’s what Peridot Mesa looks like in the springtime, eh? As Liz Lemon would say, “I want to go to there!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/12 "2019-03-18T12:43:34Z")
I noticed some red-yellow tulips starting to bloom next to the front walk yesterday. Um, I don’t remember planting those … Around here it’s borderline if tulips get enough cold to get blooms off of them. We had some good cold snaps this winter. So maybe they’ve been around a long time and this was a good winter for them. But then I would have at least noticed the leaves. Not much planted there and tulip leaves are easy to spot. Hmm. Anyway, daffodils done. Hyacinths nearly so. Forsythia going well. Early flowering trees are fading. Summer’s almost here. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/13 "2019-03-18T13:06:57Z")
The flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra-la, Have nothing to do with the case. The tub water lily is beginning to grow leaves. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/14 "2019-03-18T13:43:03Z")
Beautiful pics, **beowulff**! StG ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/15 "2019-03-18T19:31:42Z")
Yeah, those are some stunning photos, **beowulff**. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/16 "2019-03-19T01:54:24Z")
Did everyone hear about [Lake Elsinore?](https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lake-Elsinore-superbloom-wildflowers-close-traffic-13696781.php) [Here](http://desertusa.com) is the website I use, which probably contributes to these flash crowds. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/831248/17 "2019-03-19T15:20:34Z")
One thing you can’t see in all those SoCal flower pictures are the [millions of painted lady butterflies](https://www.ocregister.com/2019/03/15/those-butterflies-swarming-through-california-are-painted-ladies-not-monarchs/) flying everywhere. I’ve seen swarms like this before but it’s always amazing to see a constant stream of them that seems to go on and on no matter where you look.