Tumbleweed Cluster
September 5th, 2007 by Kelson. Posted in Strange World and tagged for tumbleweedsTumbleweeds 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.
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3 Responses to “Tumbleweed Cluster”
By West on Sep 7, 2007
I don’t think I’d ever seen (/recognized) any that weren’t already brown.
By Tumbleweeds for Sale on Feb 7, 2008
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.
By Kelson on Feb 8, 2008
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.