This was one of the most beautiful wildflower blooms I have ever seen in my lifetime. I had to go home one more time to see it! AND then go for another adventure! However going home was going on a adventure...
~Leaving the mountains for the ocean...
~Our first nite was spent in the poppies!
~We awoke in a field of dreams...
~Meet Cyndarella! My good friend, travel companion and a great lady! Through thick and thin she is no fair weather friend. I am grateful to know her and have her as a friend. We are both call the mountains and sea our home. So we are homeward bound... to the sea!
~Everyone should see this place! Please bliss out by going to the Antelope Poppy Preserve now!
~If you live in California this is your backyard!
~We saw 8 rainbows on the way home! One in the poppie fields that followed us for about 20 miles... I had to photshop and make this one a wild art piece!
~Two in Gorman...
~One overlooking Quail Springs Ecological Learning Center in Cuyama. This rainbow was mystically disappearing and reappearing! And the others we wished upon...
I just finished a Permaculture internship on a 200 acre farm there in the distance! While at QS they told me a legend about this land. They say it was once a beautiful forest with rivers and streams that salmon and trout once swam in. Until one day the desire to mine the Mojave desert of its resourses came into the peoples heart. They clearcut all the trees near the Mojave desert and then traveled to Cuyama Valley to clearcut this entire area. With 24 hour logging trains they hauled the timber overland into the Mojave desert to make mines. The Chumash who are native to this area say there was once a spring in every valley and when the loggers came the rivers and springs dried up. The Cuyama River once ever following empties into the Sisquoc River and then into the Santa Maria River that ends in the sea. I wonder if the salmon try to return and find this river and if we can bring back the rivers so they can swim upstream in the Cuyama Valley again?
At Quail Springs they belive we have the power to make the rivers come back alive again! While there I learned some of the ways we can do so! I think you know now what I wished upon...
~Here we are taking a turn down a long dirt road to one of my favorite secret spots in the back country~ secret springs in Cuyama! One of my Native friends calls me "Maya take the long way home". I guess I am living up to my name scince this spring is 24 miles from the main road that already adds an hour or two to our drive home. It is just that I like to see wildflowers and fill up my water bottles from the earth in rare places! Cyndi said her head ache went away after we drank from the spring water.
~We saw a jack rabbit in Cuyama along the way.
~I remember Jeff Johnson once called me a water snob when I made him empty his .40 cent store bought water and refill it at a beautiful spring ouside Yosemite Valley before climbing part of El Capitain. I say I just like the adventure to get to the water! Obviously!
~A river once followed here...
~Favorite swimming holes with rare lupins and chia by the Sespe back home!
~The tunnels that mark the gateway home! And my favorite spring at home below...
~Good ol' Farmer and the Cook! I helped get a grant so every Ojai valley 5th grader now goes to this farm to learn how to grow organic food!
~Home at last working by a new tomol Uncle Ray is building on a art piece with Auntie Sue.
~And of course the ocean was blown out! Spring is here!
~Leaving the mountains for the ocean...
~Our first nite was spent in the poppies!
~We awoke in a field of dreams...
~Meet Cyndarella! My good friend, travel companion and a great lady! Through thick and thin she is no fair weather friend. I am grateful to know her and have her as a friend. We are both call the mountains and sea our home. So we are homeward bound... to the sea!
~If you live in California this is your backyard!
~We saw 8 rainbows on the way home! One in the poppie fields that followed us for about 20 miles... I had to photshop and make this one a wild art piece!
~Two in Gorman...
~One overlooking Quail Springs Ecological Learning Center in Cuyama. This rainbow was mystically disappearing and reappearing! And the others we wished upon...
I just finished a Permaculture internship on a 200 acre farm there in the distance! While at QS they told me a legend about this land. They say it was once a beautiful forest with rivers and streams that salmon and trout once swam in. Until one day the desire to mine the Mojave desert of its resourses came into the peoples heart. They clearcut all the trees near the Mojave desert and then traveled to Cuyama Valley to clearcut this entire area. With 24 hour logging trains they hauled the timber overland into the Mojave desert to make mines. The Chumash who are native to this area say there was once a spring in every valley and when the loggers came the rivers and springs dried up. The Cuyama River once ever following empties into the Sisquoc River and then into the Santa Maria River that ends in the sea. I wonder if the salmon try to return and find this river and if we can bring back the rivers so they can swim upstream in the Cuyama Valley again?
At Quail Springs they belive we have the power to make the rivers come back alive again! While there I learned some of the ways we can do so! I think you know now what I wished upon...
~Here we are taking a turn down a long dirt road to one of my favorite secret spots in the back country~ secret springs in Cuyama! One of my Native friends calls me "Maya take the long way home". I guess I am living up to my name scince this spring is 24 miles from the main road that already adds an hour or two to our drive home. It is just that I like to see wildflowers and fill up my water bottles from the earth in rare places! Cyndi said her head ache went away after we drank from the spring water. ~We saw a jack rabbit in Cuyama along the way.
~I remember Jeff Johnson once called me a water snob when I made him empty his .40 cent store bought water and refill it at a beautiful spring ouside Yosemite Valley before climbing part of El Capitain. I say I just like the adventure to get to the water! Obviously!
~A river once followed here...
~Favorite swimming holes with rare lupins and chia by the Sespe back home!
~The tunnels that mark the gateway home! And my favorite spring at home below...
~Good ol' Farmer and the Cook! I helped get a grant so every Ojai valley 5th grader now goes to this farm to learn how to grow organic food!
~Home at last working by a new tomol Uncle Ray is building on a art piece with Auntie Sue.
~And of course the ocean was blown out! Spring is here!
