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# Desert Blooms
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/outside-beyond-lens/episode/desert-blooms-1isql6/
- Published: 2025-06-17T19:00:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T12:55:47.000Z
- Description: A journey into one valley, exploding with color, leads to a ghost town with its own colorful past.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Outside Beyond the Lens, Season 5, Episode 8, #ZZZ_Episode_b92ae214-08c7-47d6-aee1-abda3f4e39e6, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_dd7e626b-08d6-4fe9-9a2e-392be06a57db, #v1.16

California’s Mojave Desert can be a brutal place but, in the spring, after heavy rains, a brief window opens and fills landscapes with massive blooms of wildflowers. A journey into one valley, exploding with color, leads to a ghost town with its own colorful past.