‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Death Valley Gleams With Water, Wildflowers, and Color

The flowers are blooming and the lake is not dry. Death Valley is filled with life.

Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park. Christopher Reynolds/Los Angeles Times/TNS

By Christopher Reynolds From Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES—Death Valley is still wet. And only a fortunate few seem to be getting the best of it.