Leon Turnbull Photography

I recently found this incredible display of wildflowers overlooking the North Fork American River, my all-time favourite river. What could be better than this? I was here at sunrise, which was nice, but admittedly not the best time of day for photographing these flowers. The poppies were still sleeping; it would have been better to get here in the late morning, me thinks. Well, I’ll just have to go back there I guess. This scene was found along the Windy Pt. Trail in Colfax.

I’m not sure all the types of flowers in this amazing field. There were quite a many different kinds of them. Included were the poppies, lupines, and goldfields.

After taking in this view, I headed on down the path from here to the river. A small creek comes into the river, and there was supposed to be a decent waterfall there (called Chamberlain Creek Falls). I was quite disappointed though that the creek was only just trickling and the waterfall pretty much non-existent. That is one that will only be worth seeing after a heck of a lot of rain.