I have been wanting to get to these flowers for a few weeks now and finally made it today. Altho Google Maps said it would take about 2 hours, it ended up being closer to 3. Tehachapi is beautiful country and well worth it, though. It’s hard to keep your eyes on the road when everywhere you look is filled with color. If you want to find the wildflowers during spring in California there is a great site that tells you exactly where to go:  Carol Leigh’s Wildflower Hotsheet

If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.

~ Audra Foveo

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

~ Herman Melville

E set up a facebook page for his artwork and promised the first 20 “fans” a free portrait. Here are the first two…