Mark Harmel southern Salton Sea, @2009 Martin Trailer

March 7/8, 2009

A buddy of mine, Mark Harmel, good fellow and terrific photographer and I traveled out to the desert this past weekend.  We went looking for photo opportunities including the desert flower bloom.

With so many photo opportunities, I will split the stories up into various pieces as I have time to post here.

Our journey took us to the Salton Sea and here we were at the southeast area where these dead trees were still in the water and the edge was very wet from what seemed to be a tide.

Ocotillo cactus near Borrego Springs, ©2009 Martin Trailer

It seemed to be a little early for the big bloom of desert flowers.  The Ocotillo cactus seems about 50/50 in bloom, but depended where the plant was.  We saw them near Borrego Springs and Ocotillo Wells.  Borrego had small small purple color and some lilies close to the ground and Ocotillo Wells had no purple but did have brush with yellow blooms.

I think that the desert bloom should develop more with in the next few weeks.

Here is the state parks web site for more information from those on the ground.

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638

Martin

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