Poppies!!

The endangered Bear Poppies have been enjoying the Spring rains this year.

I wandered out to the poppy zone with Julie DeStefano and other interested folk on May 2nd to view the last stages of the 2010 bloom.

The rare poppies seem to be enjoying their protected habitat, now that there’s a fence around them which discourages but unfortunately does not eliminate offroad vehicles from mashing them. In the distance in the above picture, you can just make out the Clark County Gun Park. None in our party suffered bullet wounds, I’m pleased to report.

What a difference since my last visit in 2008. Plans for a huge freeway and massive housing development in the area seem safely dead to be supplanted by a very-likely fossil beds national monument.

So, any suggestions for whom should wear a crown of Nor’Town poppies this year?

Besides that guy, I mean.