Wildflowers of California

This book is thirty years old but such a high quality printing that it is as fresh and bright as the Spring outside my door. I used to take lots of California wildflower photos for decades so this large size primarily pictorial book had a lot of appeal to me. If you follow my Facebook page you know I still can't resist flower photos. A few of the photos at first glimpse I'd know almost exactly where it was and what it was. Many of these were new to me, especially some from out of the way locations. Every photo didn't work for me. I know the appeal of the close-up but in this book I preferred the landscape one like on the cover. Most of these were close-up shots which are beautiful but as I said I liked the flowers in their setting show more better.

The majority of these photos were taken in the Spring of 1992 through 1994, when California was emerging from a hard drought of 6 or 7 years. We've had a number of these droughts before and after but the flora is continually reborn (although with casualties) when the rains do return.

A very enjoyable book for light reading. There is some interesting and informative text by Susan Lamb. I learned things. show less