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In the spring of 2005, Death Valley was frequently in the news. Floods in the fall of 2004 along with continued unusually frequent rains throughout the winter and into the spring of 2005 produced a crop of wildflower blooms unseen in Death Valley for 50 or more years. The media often reported it as the best bloom of wildflowers in Death Valley in a century. So, of course I had to make my way there and see what all the brouhaha was about.

I only spent three days in Death Valley. It's a huge national park, one of the largest in the US, so it wasn't possible to see it all. The photos on these three pages will only touch on some of the things to see here. I hope you enjoy my photos of Death Valley.

While everyone was swarming over the wildflowers, I headed off to the sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells.	Sundown is the best time for sand dune photos and I made it there just in the nick of time. I fired off a few shots and then walked back 3.5 miles across the desert in the dark.
This photo was taken near the information booth close to Historic Stovepipe Well. The yellow in the foreground is a huge crop of coreopsis that were seemingly (but not really) everywhere throughout Death Valley	Here's another view of the wildflowers and mountains in Death Valley. This photo was taken near the Harmony Borax Works
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