Tumbleweeds tend to collect along roadsides and fences in Orange County, dropping their seeds for the next year. This can lead to some spectacular clusters of car-sized puffballs of plant.
SR-55 off-ramp at Edinger
In a few weeks*, these will dry out, turn brown, and get picked up by the Santa Ana winds. They’ll roll along the road until they hit a fence, or perhaps fetch up against another cluster, and the cycle will start all over again.
* Or possibly already — I took this photo about 3 weeks ago, and with this past week’s heat wave, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
I don’t think I’d ever seen (/recognized) any that weren’t already brown.
That is starting to look like $$$$.
I read about a guy who started a college project as a joke selling tumbleweeds and now his making thousands selling the dried weeds to people all over the world. I think he may have taken it a little farther than tumbleweeds though with dirtbags and skipping rocks.
http://www.CuriousCountryCreations.com/
Worth a laugh or two at least.
Mr. Tumbleweeds for Sale, if that is your real name, I’m half-inclined to delete your comment as spam… except for the fact that there’s already a link to your site on another post here.