Ms. Brightside

This is not a drill:

I’ve been posting my photos of the superbloom for a week. I have some that I will post later on from my hike into the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve. Next week, my plans are to visit Anza-Borrego Desert on Monday and then a couple of days in Joshua Tree National Park and a few adjacent areas where I know the superbloom is happening.

Some of the photos and one video from this article from the Washington Post. Ignore the video music…icky. But the video is accurately showing you what it’s like to walk among the flowers in the desert and in other areas of Southern California.

Satellite imagery shows the super bloom of poppies on hillsides along Walker Canyon near Lake Elsinore, Calif., on March 19. (Digitalglobe/Reuters)

An aerial view of a super bloom of wild poppies blanketing the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12 near Lake Elsinore, Calif. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The hills of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in San Luis Obispo County appear as if they were painted by super bloom. (Mimi Ditchie Photography)

A field of desert dandelions on Di Giorgio Road in Borrego Springs, Calif. (Bob Cates/Flickr)

The desert super bloom in North Palm Springs, Calif. (Angela Kenny/Flickr)