The Spring Clad All In Gladness


 ...doth laugh at Winter's sadness! Laugh along with the wildflowers of the California Floristic Province. First, those cut-ups in the hills:






Ceanothus!


Miner's lettuce, and blue dicks








Yerba santa
and holly-leaf cherry

Blackberry brambles ride the vents


Nightshade and Sagebrush, Ltd. (Purveyors of fine bath requisites?)

Heliotrope above. Below, the fantastically rare Nevin's barberry:


Now the flowery Flats: the Valley's gullies, washes and marshes:
Arroyo willow

Clarkia




Make way for goslings!












The vernal pool at Sepulveda Wildlife Refuge is coming back in native milkweed (Asclepias sp.)

Hummingbird sage!

Welcome fireweed, in two different shades!
Golden poppies, making merry with Cleveland sage...





Tutti fiori!

White sage, black sage and Cal. sunflowers



Behold beautiful buckwheat



Happy Easter from Cloudcuckooland!




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