This year's wildflower super bloom display in Southern California is so breathtaking that it's drawing too many visitors
Faced with traffic jams, crushed flowers and overflowing public toilets, authorities temporarily closed access to Walker Canyon to the swarms of tourists who'd flocked there to take the perfect Instagram picture of those bright orange poppies.
The WorldView-2 satellite, owned by DigitalGlobe, took amazing photos on March 19 of the hillsides along Walker Canyon covered in blooming poppies.DigitalGlobe
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