Extraordinary Explosion of Smallflower Globemallow
We had an otherworldly experience – reminiscent of the scene from the classic movie “The Wizard Of Oz” when the film explodes from black and white to color – last week in Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
A lifetime local writer told me that this was the first she’s ever seen of such an explosion of Smallflower Globemallow, which was enabled by the very wet winter of California rivers of rain.
Some views, which can’t remotely convey the experience: