Illustrated talk by "Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change" curators

These days, people seem not to agree on much, but they all can stop and marvel at the beauty of a flower. By emphasizing the value of what remains, Badger and Winter hope to create a common will to preserve it. The couple ranged throughout the considerable length and breadth of the Golden State, from the desert expanses of Anza-Borrego State Park near the Mexican border to the Siskiyou Mountains in the state’s far north, to capture their images, which include exuberant super blooms (which used to occur rarely but have become more frequent with climate change) as well as precise and colorful portraits of individual flowers, from the widespread California poppy to cactus flowers of the desert and the elegant mountain lady’s slipper of the Sierra Nevada.