In the fall and winter of 2004, parts of California were drenched by record amounts of rainfall. Death Valley, which averages around 2 inches of rain per year, was swamped by almost 5 inches of rain that caused flash flooding, ruined roads and closed the national park for nine days. Rain continued into the spring of 2005, bringing the accumulated season total to almost 6.5 inches, and breaking a 92-year old precipitation record. Seeds that had lain dormant for years or decades waiting for a measure of water began to sprout.
The result was a wildflower bloom so extravagant that park rangers called it a Hundred Year Bloom, meaning that no one alive had ever seen such an abundance of wildflowers in Death Valley, and might not again. Flowers so rare that nothing was known about them, along with the explosion of birds and insects and mammals, had botanists and biologists racing to the Valley to see it before it all faded away again to dust and heat.
The photos we took that spring in Death Valley lead us to start Mozaic Studio.
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