The surface ebbed and flowed. A million particles of light and color glimmered with every gust of wind. Patterns of blue, pink, purple, yellow, and green lay awash on that rolling landscape, like the broad brushstrokes of a mighty painter with a colorful palette. That was the sea of flowers blooming on top of Table Mountain in Oroville a couple of springs ago.
Zooming in on the details, I spotted tiny poppies poking through a mass of Sierra primroses, while an amalgam of poppies, goldfields, blue dicks and lupines formed a colorful background. Rivers of purple lupine wound their way alongside lush creeks while masses of bright orange poppies stood guard along rocky ledges.
It is the opportunity to witness this diversity of colorful life that often motivates me to seek out amazing landscapes and thriving nature-scapes to shoot next. Table Mountain in Oroville, is just one of those multitudes of places on this vibrant planet.
Table Mountain Ecological Reserve
CA USA