Fields of gold

Dee

On our trip down the coast Sunday we noticed the wild yellow flowers are starting to pop up all over. There are two kinds, a shorter bright yellow flower, and the taller more yellow gold flowers. These flowers last a few months, but the fields of gold get plowed under. These fields are south of Half Moon Bay immediately north of Bob's Farm. We saw lots of cars pulled over and photographers and models having fun in the fields. Of course I have better photos than this one, but I wanted to show the overall impact of the gold invasion...

Harryb

Very pretty shot. It makes you wish you were there.

Ok where are the better shots you have?

Harry

Shakey

Yeah where are the better ones? I need to see plant growth HERE at Dgrin because I wont see any HERE Calgary for ...approx 4 months .

Tim

eugene

I love the title of your post, it really reminds me of a picture I took in a state park near san diego.

dkapp

I was down in the same area Sunday! The flowers were amazing. Much better than just two weeks ago when I saw them last.

I'm glad the weather finally changed for the better. I'm tempted to get out today, but there is just too much I need to get done

Dave

Steve Cavigliano

Nice one Dee ^5
I noticed that these yellow wildflowers (weeds) are popping up all over. When Andy and I drove to the City, last week, they were sprouting up all along 280. We get some decent wildflower activity up here, but I love to travel down to the area South of the Grapevine, in Spring (early April). The hills there look like someone took a loaded paint brush and went crazy. Beautiful colors

Thanks for sharing this one,
Steve

Dee

Another field of gold photo
Here's a close up of the taller yellow flowers.

Dee

Here's one, Harry

Harryb wrote:

Very pretty shot. It makes you wish you were there.

Ok where are the better shots you have?

Harry

I posted another photo showing the detail of the flowers in this thread.

Dee

Just for you

Shakey wrote:

Yeah where are the better ones? I need to see plant growth HERE at Dgrin because I wont see any HERE Calgary for ...approx 4 months .

Tim

I'll try to get out and take some more flowers for you. We have calla lilies blooming on our deck, the iris leaves are up, the dwarf iris are starting to come up....

But I noticed some California poppies in Fremont, the Chasmanthe is blooming in Montara and we always have the Marguerites (bush of daisy like flowers) blooming, my neighbor's geraniums are blooming. Usually there's always something blooming in the San Francisco bay area, but the flowering season will be coming to full bloom in another month.

Dee

Hills of Gold

eugene wrote:

I love the title of your post, it really reminds me of a picture I took in a state park near san diego.

That's a pretty one! You really captured that light gold or blonde color very well. In the summer it doesn't rain here, and everything gets brown then gold. Opposite of the east coast. Right now it's the rainy season and everything is such a vivid green, it almost hurts your eyes. Almost as if the greens know their time is short so they are green with a vengence! In February the hills are such a bright green color, in August they are gold.

Going back east after being here for 15 years in the summer, I thought everything looked so "lush" it's a strange transition.

Dee

Still a little under the weather

dkapp wrote:

I was down in the same area Sunday! The flowers were amazing. Much better than just two weeks ago when I saw them last.

I'm glad the weather finally changed for the better. I'm tempted to get out today, but there is just too much I need to get done

Dave

I was thinking of you when I took those shots. Glad to hear you got to see it for yourself.

I bet you don't know about the Chasmanthe. I'll post photos later with directions so you can study these odd flowering plants yourself. Fascinating forms. We had some growing at our old rental, and it took a few years to track down their name.

Be on the lookout for poppies, I saw some blooming in Fremont.

Dee

Daffodil Hill

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

I noticed that these yellow wildflowers (weeds) are popping up all over. When Andy and I drove to the City, last week, they were sprouting up all along 280. We get some decent wildflower activity up here, but I love to travel down to the area South of the Grapevine, in Spring (early April). The hills there look like someone took a loaded paint brush and went crazy. Beautiful colors

Thanks for sharing this one,
Steve

I saw some poppies on the side of the road in Fremont -- and there's one yellow field I saw from 880. I should probably take the "back road" and see if those fields are flowering. The back road is what we take when 880 southbound is all backed up, one exit before our normal exit.

Have you ever gone to Daffodil Hill? I've heard about it in Gold country, but never gone.

This Sunday Ed and I will go to Pescadero to see if the yellow is blooming, theres' an old beat up house that would make a good background.

I can't remember where I was, but there are fields in your neck of the wood with some old orchard trees that stand out black against the yellow fields. Wish I could remember where I was and when I took those. Can't remembere if it was digital or film, that's how long it was. With so much building in that area my field could be a housing development by now. :-)

ginger_55

I love the title "Fields of Gold", too. I assume you all know it is a song. I think Sting sang it, it reminds me of Eva Cassidy.

And I love your photos, Dee. Particularly the low closeup with the mtn in back.
We have trees, I think they are Magnolias, and they have blossoms on them, but mostly it is brown here on the coast of South Carolina. In the winter that is. We are flat, wet lands, basically.

Our flowers start in about March I think. Spring is glorious here. Not only the wonderful flowers all over, high and low, but the wetlands start turning green.

I grew up in Michigan and Denver, Colorado, so I am used to snow.....and the rolling hills of Michigan. It took me a long time to start appreciating the beauty in flat wetlands. Basically, I didn't appreciate it until last spring when I joined dgrin and started photographing it, actually looking at the beauty that is here. By that time I had "wasted" about 25 yrs here saying, "I don't take pictures as there is nothing to take pictures of".

It was the "assignments" of the challenges that put me in the places to learn to enjoy the southeast coast.

I, too, enjoyed your flower shots, and they made me think........

ginger

dkapp

Dee wrote:

This Sunday Ed and I will go to Pescadero to see if the yellow is blooming, theres' an old beat up house that would make a good background.

You mean this one



That shot is from around Christmas, and the yellow is much more vibrant now. I drove past it Sunday.

Dave

ginger_55

That is nice, Dave! I like how you put the cloud in the sky where you did .

I Love those flowers! And that house does make a good background.

Dee, is that the house? Must be many different angles, or just before a thunderstorm would be nice. Ominous clouds and stuff.....

ginger

dkapp

ginger_55 wrote:

That is nice, Dave! I like how you put the cloud in the sky where you did .

I Love those flowers! And that house does make a good background.

Dee, is that the house? Must be many different angles, or just before a thunderstorm would be nice. Ominous clouds and stuff.....

ginger

Thanks Ginger. The sky was amazing that day, and I was lucky enough to get a few good pics with it. Our skies here are usually pretty flat, so this was a real treat.

Dave

Dee

Not sure about the house

dkapp wrote:

You mean this one



That shot is from around Christmas, and the yellow is much more vibrant now. I drove past it Sunday.

Dave

Hmmm, not sure if that's the same one or not. Mine is on the main drag but close to town. I didn't get as far down the coast as I thought I would yesterday. There was some neat salt haze in the air so I got sidetracked.

Will post some photos later on.

Michiel de Brieder

I love the close-up Dee!!
Thanks for sharing!