The Boot Hill trail is southwest of Clear Lake in Northern California, and we found a nice collection of wildflowers on a short hike there in early March 2020. This was a 2.5 mile loop through a mixture of chaparral and...
Rockville Hills Regional Park is a fun city park near Fairfield that has a wonderful maze of trails that contain a wide variety of wildflowers. I don’t usually think of “city parks” as being a great...
The Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve has been on my hiking “wish list” for a long time, and with all the warm weather in February 2020 we finally had an opportunity to hike there. It was early in the...
Every once in awhile you find a little gem, an easy place to find a few beautiful wildflowers without a lot of effort. One such place is the Omega Diggings Overlook, a rest stop on Highway 20. There is a short hike out...