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Wild Walk – Santa Ysabel Preserve, California

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Wild Walk – Santa Ysabel Preserve, California

Join me on a picture perfect day hiking in the San Diego Backcountry mountains! We’re exploring the Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve in Santa Ysabel California, about ten miles or so up the road from Ramona, and about five miles north of Julian. After a wet winter the land is lush and green, and the creeks are running through the glens, so I’m so pleased to share this beautiful day in one of my favorite places with you on such a gorgeous day. Please enjoy my newest video: Wild Walk – Santa Ysabel Preserve.

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Grateful Desert Ocotillos in the Anza Borrego Desert

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Grateful Desert Ocotillos in the Anza Borrego Desert

Grateful Desert Ocotillos (Fouquieria splendens) in the Anza Borrego Desert are blooming and thriving after a wet winter. Let’s watch these beautiful, sculptural plants renew and regenerate throughout the desert spring.

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Supreme Superbloom! Anza Borrego Desert Spring Wildflowers! New Video

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Supreme Superbloom! Anza Borrego Desert Spring Wildflowers! New Video

Experience the Supreme Superbloom in the Anza Borrego Desert! The wildflowers are blooming and the sun is shining, so let’s hop in the 4x4 and explore the superbloom across the Anza Borrego desert and mountains! I’m so grateful to share such a beautiful day in the low and high desert surrounded by blooming desert sages, chuparosas, blazing star sand verbenas, fiddlenecks, sacred dulturas, and so many more. The desert mountain botanicals are just on another level this season after just the right amount of rain and sun over the winter. Please enjoy my video: Supreme Superbloom! Anza Borrego Desert Spring...

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Supreme Desert Wildflower SuperBloom Super-Alert!

Supreme Desert Wildflower SuperBloom Super-Alert!

Yes, we are indeed having a spring wildflower superbloom in the Southern California Desert and I’m so grateful. We have had a near perfect weather pattern of intermittent rain and sunny days this winter, and the earliest wildflowers like sand verbenas and mallows have already started to bloom. Don't miss seeing this incredible natural phenomenon with about a million of your friends, yes it gets crowded!

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Desert Adventures For The Mind Body & Spirit!

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Desert Adventures For The Mind Body & Spirit!

Get ready for more desert adventures for the mind body and spirit!  After a wet winter, the San Diego Backcountry Desert and Mountains are looking lush and green.  Just like me, my videos are wholesome, natural, and pure, and my new ones coming up soon are sure to put a country mile wide smile on your face.

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