On Our Way to Lassen Volcanic National Park

Sunflower Field, 

You may wonder why I posted this way much later after I already have several posts regarding Lassen Volcanic National Park which are: Bumpass Hell, Manzanita Lake and Lake Helen. Actually, I myself don't even know the reason why :) All I know is that if I make one post of our summer trip, it would take me a very long time to write about them, and your eyes may get tired with so many pictures in one post. Thus I had to share the places we've been in installment. However, I did not want also to stay too long in one place, so what I did was to share the highlights of each park we visited first. Now that I think I am done with the highlights of our summer trip at the Klamath Region Circle of Parks , I will be sharing here some beautiful sights and places we visited during our trip.

Sunflower Field as Far as Your Eyes Can See

On our way to Lassen Volcanic National Park, somewhere in Sacramento Valley area, we pass farmlands after farmlands, and there were several acres of sunflower farms in sight as well. Since our trip is not always about the destination, we usually take our time to stop and enjoy whatever sights we see along the way. And one of those places we stopped to enjoy the scenery is at this marvelous sunflower farm. It was amazingly yellow as far as your eyes can see, on both sides of the highway. 

Field of Sunflower

How huge are these sunflowers? Here are some pictures up close, 

Sunflower Up Close

From afar, you can not see the bees, it was just all yellow, however, if you take a closer look, you will see a lot of bees enjoying the sunflower, always as busy as they can be. I can't blame them, they have wonderful flowers to feast on.

Sunflower and the Bees

Now, the pictures above really look warm and "summery". Even the two pictures that follow look as warm as they can be.

Creek We Spotted on Our Way to Lassen

Lassen Volcanic National Park Entrance

However, as we go higher in elevation inside the park, the scenery changes. 

Exposed Colored Earth, Lassen Volcanic National Park

And from afar, the coldness of Lassen Peak was greeting us.

 Lassen Peak from Afar

( Lassen Peak is the largest plug dome volcano in the world and is the Southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range )

And here was I, at the trailhead of our very first hike in Lassen Volcanic National Park, in an atmosphere so different from the warm sunflower pictures above. Only that you can tell from my attire, that despite of the snowy surrounding, well, it was still, summer!

@ Bumpass Hell Trailhead

If you miss my post on Bumpass Hell, you can find it here.

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