PART 3:  The Flowers of Death Valley

I find the combination of the yellows and lavenders quite irresistible, so spent a lot of time in this flower-field at the south end of Death Valley:

Sometimes it is good to get a closer look at these beauties, and in doing so pick up yet a third flower type in the mix:

This particular field of flowers seemed to reach all the way down to the Amargosa River (looking west-northwest, with the Panamint Range in the distance).

In the other direction, it seemed to reach a similarly long way:

To the left of the above southeastward view (northeastward) it looked like this:

And to the right (south) it looked like this, with some residual storm clouds still clinging to mountains:

Moving toward the river showed the field ended before reaching it, with the lower part being mostly purple or lavender verbanas and the daisies and buttercups holding the higher ground:

Turning around at the edge of the verbana field showed few flowers between here and the river:

The next two photos focus on one verbana plant each, with one having many living neighbors, the other not:

There were other flowers in this field as well:

But the two that dominated did so quite spectacularly.  On the way up and out of the valley, these distand flower fields were intriguing in terms of their location within a side canyon (the field of flowers stretching to the left is the main one featured on these pages):

What follows next goes without more words: it is simply eye candy representing different aspects of the main flower field at the south end of the valley:

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