Green Explosion

[Matt Tilghman]

Like so many people in the Bay Area, I've got drought fever. The landscape has just been so dry this winter. I miss the verdant scenes I've come to expect this time of year. So when the most recent heavy rains hit, all I wanted to do was head out to see how the lands would react. I wanted to go somewhere that I thought would react fairly immediately to the rains, as well as somewhere that I hadn't been yet. So after some deliberation, I decided to head out to Samuel P Taylor State Park -- a forest I'd passed through on several visits to Point Reyes, but never hiked in. The park was the perfect destination. The forests were indeed teeming with moisture, and the greens were exploding from their den of hiding. This photo was taken on Bill's Trail.  The clearing storm made for a windy day, hence some motion blur in the foreground ferns.


Green Explosion

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Beautiful scene and great greens, indeed.

Cheers
~Chris

[francois]

Wow, that's green! I like how to framed the ferns on the left, it looks like green fireworks…
Bravo

[sdwilsonsct]

Difficult subject, great treatment.

[Matt Tilghman]

That's what I see too, mere weeks later.  Sobering how quickly things have turned dry again the past two weeks.  But that day, Lagunitas Creek, Stairstep Falls, and Devil's Gulch Creek were roaring!  Even arroyos in the chaparral up near Barnabe Peak were totally saturated.

[Paulo Bizarro]

Nice greens, and good subject.