We thought a good outing for April would be to see some wildflowers in bloom in a new place to visit. On Friday the 21st we found a great spot called North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve. The "mountain" is a few miles north of the city of Oroville about 2 hours from home.
"Created by ancient lava (basalt) flows, the approximately 3,300 acre North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve is an elevated basalt mesa." We heard there were beautiful wildflowers up on top. Here are some photos from our drive to get up there.
We saw huge pieces of basalt. What is basalt?
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava)
And now you know!
Here is some of what we saw on the top of Table Mountain:
Lots of basaltic rock amidst the flowers
And even snow capped mountains in the distance!
A crazy photographer!
We also found this covered bridge.
And we saw lots of cattle grazing.
It was a beautiful, peaceful spot.
(There were a lot of cars and people there but they were all very respectful.)
A shared smoothie tasted good!
It was very windy on top of Table Mountain..
...but we had lots of fun!
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