Bundle of beauty and golden light!...

This is the time of the year when poppies explodes, spreading the bright golden color over miles and miles of fields and hills of California.

With the heavy rains this year the abundance of blooming poppies is overwhelming all the way from Mojave into costal area along 101 Hay to Monterey-Carmel and further up North San Francisco.

Visiting friends from Monterey I had the chance to enjoy the beauty of this incredible display of colors.

Enjoy these shots as much as I enjoyed!

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) the state flower of California, is native to the Pacific slope of North California. California's orange Poppy flowers grow fast in spring growth. Clouds, blue sky with regular rain storms and dusting of winter snow on the mountains. In this heavenly slice of California called Monterey it most certainly does.

 It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903.

The intense blooming season for the California poppy falls usually within late winter to early spring, during the months of mid-February through mid-May. Blooming seasons are dependent on the amount of rainfall during the winter to early spring seasons.