Flowers in the Carrizo Plain National Monument and surrounding mountains at the end of March, 2017

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It looks like this strange flower is growing in a ring. I would see a field of them the next day, but not in rings.
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There was a huge patch of purple in the middle of the Carrizo Plain...
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Unfortunately the road didn't get me close enough that I would feel comfortable leaving my motorbike so far away to see the purple flowers close up.
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KCL Campground
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The next morning I started off with the flowers near the south end of Soda Lake. Also, I wanted to get a closer look at the lake.
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There's the lake, surrounded by flowers
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I was curious about the lumps in the lake. Were they rocks, or some sort of dense bush?
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Zooming in, I can conclude two things. First, the clumps are bushes. Second, it's not water in the lake, but mud, judging by the animal tracks near the bottom!
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On Elkhorn Road, headed up into the Temblor Mountains (eventually)
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This road turned out to be a dead end, but there were some pretty valleys along the way
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The next set of photos is from the unnamed road(s) along the ridge of the Temblor Range, heading north from Hurricane / Crocker Spring Road. These hillsides were to the east of the road.

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