Wednesday, February 3, 2010

February - Almond Blossom Month

Mid-February is special and particularly beautiful time in the Sacramento Valley; the time when the hundreds of thousands of acres of almond trees bloom.

California produces 80% of the world's almonds, and winter wouldn't be complete without the endless sea of white flowers that appear for two weeks every year.

Here is a sample of what the orchards look like during the bloom (you can see my full set of almond orchard images on my main website):

Almond Trees in Bloom

Almond Blossoms

Almond Blossoms

Almond Orchard in Bloom

Almond Blooms and the Sutter Buttes

Almond Tree in Bloom

6 comments:

  1. So beautiful! I like especially #4 and 5. Where did you take them?

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  2. Sally, number 4 was taken just outside College City in Colusa County (there is neither a college nor a city there). Number 5 was taken at the south end of the Sutter Buttes in Sutter County.

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  3. Dear Tony,

    Thank you for the information! I'm from LA, but currently residing in East Sacramento on a temporary job assignment. It took me for a while to start liking this city, but the spring came and the nature's beauty really opened up my eyes, just like your pictures did and now I really enjoy living in this city with lots of flowers and trees.:-) Haven't had a chance to been to Colusa County nor Sutter county, but would love to one day -- before too late, though lol

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  4. And I'm looking for plum flower photos... preferably pink ones... do you have them on your site?

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  5. Beautiful almond orchard pix. Would you license your pix for use on a packaging label of an almond based cookie? My email is leonoziel@rogers.com

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  6. Hi. Your photos of the almond blossom are exquisite! Our surname is Almendras. Like most Filipinos, we trace our roots to Spain hence the Spanish term for almonds. I would like to request your permission to use photo no.2 for the cover of our genealogy book that I am putting together. If you agree, a citation attributing the photo to you will appear in the inside front cover. Thank you so much. Email ad is papworthmt@gmail.com

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