Tumbleweed Cluster
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 Posted in Strange World | 3 Comments »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.
Mail-order Tumbleweeds!
Friday, March 18th, 2005 Posted in Strange World | No Comments »Just what I always needed! Proving that “you can sell anything on the Internet,” it’s Prairie Tumbleweed Farm, purveyor of “organically grown,” “100% Y2K-compliant” tumbleweeds.
It wouldn’t be much use here in Orange County, where all you have to do is pull over to the side of the road at the right time of the year. Maybe in the off-season.
(Via the Daily Sucker. You have been warned.)
