Spring 2010 Wildflower Trip Chronicles
by David Senesac

See NOTE at bottom right for selecting images in these pages.

San Francisco Bay Area
   January 3 thru March 7

...page 1
Mission Peak Open Space Preserve ( 1/3 )
Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve ( 1/10 1/16 )
Saint Joseph's Hill Open Space Preserve < 1/24 )
Calero County Park ( 1/31 )
Rancho Canada del Oro Open Space Preserve ( 2/7 )
Hunting Hollow at Henry Coe State Park ( 2/13 )
Coit Road at Henry Coe State Park ( 2/15 )
Grizzly Gulch ( 2/15 )
...page 2
return to Hunting Hollow ( 2/20 )
San Luis Reservoir Wildlife Area ( 2/27 )
Pacheco State Park ( 2/28 )
San Luis Reservoir Wildlife Area ( 3/6 )
return to Grizzly Gulch at Henry Coe State Park ( 3/7 )

Notes on the 2009 > 2010 Rainy Season

...page 3
state monthly precipitation maps
CDEC site precipitation graphs
Comments on the 2009 > 2010 rainy season
October thru mid January
major storms of late January
late winter into early spring


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Central Coast Range
   March 14 thru April 10

...page 4
Fresno County Sierra foothills ( 3/13 )
central Coast Range badlands ( 3/14 )
lower Kern and Tulare rivers ( 3/20 )
return to central Coast Range badlands ( 3/21 )
Carrizo Plain National Monument ( 3/27 )
Old Potato Lake ( 3/27 )
windy day in the Temblor Range ( 3/27 )

...page 5
plains of the monument [Carrizo Plain] ( 3/28 )
Temblor Range
journey into monument badlands ( 3/28 )
photography notes
...page 6
pulling the trigger
return to a Temblor Range canyon ( 4/3 )
up on a ridgeline ( 4/3 )
...page 7
the weather gamble
Carrizo Plain National Monument ...round 3 ( 4/9 )
down a ravine ( 4/9 )
journey up Painted Elephant Canyon ( 4/9 )
chance meeting ( 4/9 )
California Valley ( 4/10 )

NOTE: Instead of embedding images directly into my road trip story, I have instead embedded thumbnails of each image at the sides of pages. When one Mouse selects such thumbnails with a single click, an image window with minimal browser features at the size of the respective full web image, will open on one's screen at one of a couple specific locations. These downsized Coolpix images are either 720 or 600 pixels in maximum dimension. As one moves their mouse off the thumbnail image, the image window will close. The programming term for this is onClick and mouseOut on imagemaps. Thus one does not need to Mouse doubleclick an image for the image to open in a window. However if one wishes to open up any image so that it remains open in a normal full featured browser window, one can right Mouse click and select "Open" in the pop up window