Flowers/Travel

The Beautiful Flower Fields of Carlsbad, California

Globetrotters April Monthly Challenge — “Floral Beauty Around the World”

Michael Rhodes
Globetrotters
Published in
6 min readApr 4, 2023

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All Photos by Author Michael Rhodes — All Photos were taken on 3 April 2023 — Using a Canon EOS 7D Mark II

When I saw that the April Monthly Challenge at Globetrotters was about Flowers, my first thoughts went to Desert Flowers, which I was exposed to at an early age in the Mohave Desert.

Globetrotters April Challenge by Michele Maize

But I already wrote a story recently about Desert Flowers, so I needed another flower topic.

The flower fields in Carlsbad, California, are famous. Not worldwide famous, but certainly locally.

Photo by Author

They are beautiful, but visiting them has been turned into quite a commercial affair. Tickets are only available online for a specific time slot; you must arrive only 15 minutes before or after your assigned slot. And the price has doubled…

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Michael Rhodes
Globetrotters

Retired - Top writer in Sustainability, Travel & Food. Married 41 years, we have a Corgi dog. Love, camping, baseball, Bonsai, travel, & food.