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Sep 10, 2015 5:31 PM CST
Name: ursula
Chile (Zone 9b)
When the 'El NiƱo' (El Nino) phenomena occurs, rainfalls are registered in the driest desert on earth. It happened in May this year, but unfortunately with terrible consecuences produced by landslides, avalanches, etc. Many died, some have not been found.

But nature is giving one of the most wonderful spectacles these days:

https://www.google.cl/search?q...

This beauty will not last very long, but still enough time for the plants to produce seeds and the bulbs complete their cycle. Then there will be northing but earth and stones, but the seeds and bulbs will amazingly survive in the desert for years, until it rains again. Then the miracle of life, as a flower carpet, will astonish us one more time. Survival is possible even in the driest desert on earth!

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