Argemone or Prickly Poppy
Elfin Mariposal Lily
California Coastal Sunflower
Wild Artichoke. These were miniatures though which were new to me!
Here is some more of the striking Prickly Poppies.
I had never seen these before. They resemble small Matilija Poppies.
They are so beautiful and were blanketing the coastal mountains that had burned in prior years.
I am looking in to planting some at The Holler.
Cheers to you from these most cheerful native San Diego wildflowers!
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Absotively gorgeous. We have nothing like these around here so it is good to be shown these very different flowers. I am always awed by your incredible talent and eye.
Ohhhh, I am touched and honored. Thank you~
Absolutely beautiful – so much colour!
There is something so special about wildflowers, growing on their own, waiting for someone to come upon them!
Being completely reliant on mother nature in order to survive, makes them pretty special, and we get to enjoy them in all their magnificent glory!
I am wondering why these beautiful flowers remain wild flowers. Why don’t people domesticate them? They look beautiful!!
Yes. We spend so much time nuturing non-native “exotics!” I grow lots of natives but need to do more and I am going to try and get some of these prickly poppies. I love them. Cheers to you my friend & thanks as always!
Those prickly poppies were stunning in their native habitat…as if they thrive in rough areas without competition. I’d be interested to know how you get on with them…and another excuse to see super photographs of them in a year or so’s time!
Yes that is it exactly it I suspect. The prior fire cleared the way for the poppies and provided nutrients and they took off. I was struck by their fragile beauty and tough hardiness. I will definitely post some photos next year if I suceed in transplanting them! It would seem that they should do well at The Holler~
They are gorgeous and so cheerful – great pictures!
Thanks Meg and loved your recent post!
Those prickly poppies are beautiful, so delicate. It’s quite interesting that they grew after the fire.
It gave them space and nutrients I bet! I had never seen them before as these mountains are usually covered with Manzanita and sage.
Gorgeous post! I pinned the Prickly Poppy! Thanks!
I just was drooling over your running black-white mural pics Resa. Incredible!
🙂 🙂
Wow it looks like thistles… Beautiful capture of color.. You have talent:)
Intense prickles!! These flowers do not want to be plucked!! Thanks so much for the kind words~
The flowers are lovely,Cindy.
Growing wild and free like all should be. Thank you Ranu~
The colors and textures are stunning. Thank you for posting.
Thank you for the kind appreciation~
Prickly poppy….love it! Like the lighting there too!
It is funny isn’t it? An oxymoron, or a name for a irritable chld?
I’m close but not close enough – somewhere in Union City. I did take some flower photos….
But I left my adapter thingy at home and my camera card doesn’t just plug in to my PC.
So maybe when I get home and get help I can e-mail you some. Maybe you’ll be able to tell me what they are 🙂
Thanks for visiting my Flash Fiction and other stories. I pull ’em out of thin air. At least that one anyway.
You have talent my dear and I look forward to seeing your flowers! Cheers to you Jules~
Beautiful series Cindy, and the second shot is very captivating. Wonderful work.
Honored my friend as your photography is ethereal~
Pretty Shots Cindy, are beautiful
Muchas gracias mi amiga!
Hi Cindy, very nice. My favorite is the first image of the Prickly Poppy. I’ve never seen that before and you did great photographing it 🙂
Why thank you, I had never seen the prickly poppy either and was amazed by it covering the hills. Plus you’ve gotta love the name! 😉
Beautiful! The Prickly Poppies look like “cistes”
http://randos-photos-passions.khopyworld.com/randonnees/Cassis-Calanques%20PM-PP-EV/images/DSC07140%20Ciste%20blanc.jpg
Have a nice week Cindy!
They do look remarkably the same! Beautidul cistes! The leaves and prickles are different and the popplies are strangely flat with the centers rising up similar to matilijas. I was taken by them and their prickles!!! You have a wonderful week my friend and thank you for sharing these lovely cistes!
Thank you for sharing this beauty! 🙂
Thank you for appreciating it! It makes posting so worthwhile~
Stunning! Nature’s bounty and beauty.
As you so beautifully captured in your recent post!
Lovely light on a beautiful bloom.
Natures gifts, ours for the viewing!
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More lovely flowers to balance with beauty the serious and even distressing news. Thank you Cindy!
I feel it too my friend, the weight of the events in the world, particularly now. I know you do too and I am continuously grateful for you~
Oh. My. Gosh. These wild blooms are simply beautiful! 🙂
Yes they are! I can’t help but know they are there for us to find, and to make us happy! These were on a very isolated high mountain top, blooming as far as the eye could see. They amazed us! We had never seen these flowers~
Lucky you! 🙂
These are gorgeous!
I agree Cindy. They are beautiful
Great to hear from you & cheers to you Al!
🙂 Unfortunately I am so busy at the moment. I am glad I decided to do the Photo of the Week this year instead of the Photo of the Day
Yes indeed. Photo of the day would get exhausting!
Beautiful flowers and very great shots Cindy 🙂
Well how kind of you! Thanks much~
Wow! Cindy. Pure magic. Those Prickly Poppies are beautiful flowers – so wild and robust yet so eye-catching. Love you images.
They really are unusual and distinctive aren’t they! So glad you enjoyed them~
Very beautiful flowers, Cindy. Pawkisses for a flowerful Day 🙂
Visa versa 2 U X 2!
Cheers, they are very pretty. I particularly like the Eflin. Somebody gave it a very apt name. 🙂
There is a forest here by that name, The Elfin Forest which I agree is great imagery! Cheers to you Graham~
Heavenly, divine, would never even be enough to describe such a beauty!
From the destruction of fire comes the beauty of poppies blanketing the mountains!
Amazing!
Your native wild flowers are beautiful! I love them all! Hugz Blondie and Boo Bear
So happy you do you two!! 😉
a flower feast thanks Cindy, even though I am still in the northern hemisphere I have not seen anything so lovely since we were in Ronda a month ago 🙂
Very happy you enjoyed and going now to look up Ronda!
With all of the amazing textures in these photos, I feel like I’m right there with you. It’s so nice to see the world and its parts through your perspective.
This is such a lovely comment and very motivating for me to keep on clickin!
Another beautiful bounty from nature – that hairy, rose like Lily is completely new to me and wildly attractive .
Amazing isn’t it! It took me quite awhile to find out what it was!
So lovely, Cindy. Wild flowers are just as beautiful as cultivated ones. 🙂
Yes, with the added benefit of landscape design by mother nature!
Such thorns! There are many stories in that photo, Cindy! 🙂
I think so too! Pretty powerful imagery~
Gorgeous wild things. 🙂
As wild things often are! Thinking of you my friend and hope all is well~
I think I am going to try planting a wildflower lawn this year. The bees and I will love it.
Oh what a good idea! It will attract bees and butterflies and be so pretty! I hope you post photos~
Wild flowers are fascinating, aren’t they Cindy? They’re like the average woman who is not pursuing a career in entertainment or modeling — beautiful in their own rough yet delicate way.
Yes and the average woman is more beautiful in my eyes than the forced and artificial beauty depicted in magazines and movies~
I agree, Cindy!
Liebe Cindy super Fotos von den Blumen und dem Federvogel sei ganz lieb gegrüßt Klaus in Freundschaft
Vielen danke Klaus! Freundschaft~ 🙂
Absolutely beautifully captured! The essence of beauty lies within the eyes of the beholder truly! and yet flowers stay still in humble beauty!
There were no visitors on these mountain tops when we were there. Imagine the flowers blooming just for themselves with no one to see. That is beauty to me!
Those poppies are stunning! They look like they’re smiling. 🙂
They probably are!
Thanks for taking me on your journey. I love seeing flowers I have never seen before. 😀
I am so glad you do because I love finding flowers I’ve never seen before!!!
So beautiful!
Mil grazi!
Cindy, I admired your photo shot, beautiful. Love the petals and colors. They’re really FABULOUS flowers. I like your technique – used the sun lichting- Fantastic! Thanks a lot for your wondeful clicking. Regards @Della
What a thoughtful and kind comment! Thank you my friend and cheers to you~
I love desert flowers. There’s nothing like them.
Yes, something about the thorns and delicate flowers serve up a lot of imagery and metaphors~
Awesome serie!
Beautiful pictures! But the 1st one takes the price….looks like a dreamy dancer 🙂
Thank you for the wonderful imagery, how lovely~
Those colours are incredible, Cindy. Gorgeous.
Mother Nature does good work!!!
brilliant as always Cindy!
Thank you Heather & cheers~
You surely know how to get to the heart of things Cindy and flowers are no exception. Kudos my friend!
I am just very glad to find people like you who love the same living things that I do~
Just wildflowers!!! Girl there is nothing…..J.U.S.T. about your photography!! Your pics are like magical portals to strange places and alien things!!!! These are sick, Cindy!! And it just so happens…that poppies are my favorite, (as you know one of our book covers sports one!!) and I had never known that there we’re white ones!!! Luv this and sharing it now!!! xoxo <3
I love you two!! Such an awesome creative duo and such excellent blogging friends. Hugz to you both and tons of gratitude for you!! Plus hands down you find the most interesting people to showcase on your blog which is so very kind of you. You rock!! <3 <3
What a beautiful parade of flowers!
All by their lonesome on the mountain top!! Thank you my friend~