Adobe Closeup

Left Close Up The Condor did fly high over Sonoma and most of Califronia.	Center Close Up The Mexican General Vallejo used this Adobe to run all his cattle in the Sonoma Valley.	Right Close Up Poppies were native to large parts of California.
Named by Adelbert Von Chamisso, a naturalist and member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, who dropped anchor in San Francisco in 1816 in a bay surrounded by hills of the golden flowers. Also sometimes known as the flame flower, la amapola, and copa de oro (cup of gold), the poppy grows wild throughout California. It became the state flower in 1903. Every year April 6 is California Poppy Day, and Governor Wilson proclaimed May 13-18, 1996, Poppy Week.