Poppies

Sundays are meant for road trips and adventures- We don't have much time for any of that here at Art Center but we managed to squeeze a little much needed adventuring in. Christie, Alyse, and I headed back to Riverside to find some more abandoned houses and interesting landscapes to shoot. As we were cruising down the 15 headed towards San Diego we suddenly saw bright orange scattered across the green hills. As we got closer we figured out that the bright orange was from poppies, already in full bloom. If you didn't know, the poppy is the California state flower annnnd apparently it is illegal to pick/or kill one. If you do you may be hunted down or perhaps even shot down. Ok maybe not, but you never know. The closer we got to the poppy fields the more we wanted to run through them. We got off at the next exit in Lake Elsinor and found our way to the flowers. I have never seen anything like it. The color- No really, THE COLOR- spectacular!
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