| Today I went to the Annual SCICON Barbeque and Wildflower Festival. SCICON is Tulare County's Science and Conservation Camp and it lies in the beautiful foothills only 3 miles northeast of where I live. This is the first time I've gone to this festival and I was so glad I did. The food and entertainment was great and the wildflowers are incredible there right now!! California certainly has had an amazing spring for wildflowers this year and the displays on the SCICON campus are the best that I have ever seen in the Sierra Nevada foothills! I counted over 40 different species on a short hike that I did including many I'd never seen before. |
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| SCICON Barbeque and Wildflower Festival |
| Baby Blue Eyes Nemophila menziesii |
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| Blue Dicks Dichelostemma capitatum above and below |
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| Chinese Houses Collinsea heterophylla above and below |
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| Indian Pink Silene californica |
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| Munz's Iris Iris munzii |
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| Ithuriel's Spear Triteleia laxa |
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| Common Madia Madia elegans |
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| Miner's Lettuce Claytonia perfoliata |
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| Fiesta Flower Pholistoma auritum |
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| Vetch? |
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| Golden Sunburst Pseudobahia heermanii |
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| Clover Trifolium sp. and Glassy Onion Allium hyalinum Above and below |
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| Fairy Lantern Calochorthus amoenus Above and below |
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| Pretty Face Triteleia ixioides Above and below |
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| Foothill Poppy Eschscholzia caespitosa Above and below |
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