Spring is Here! And with spring come warmer days, bees, birds, and, of course, lots of flowers! Not that L.A. is flowerless during the winter. In fact, L.A. is never flowerless. We have flowers all year long –including some pretty awesome desert stuff– but there’s never as much variety as in the spring. So, if we keep getting some rain (fingers crossed), soon they’ll all be blooming with full force! Here are a few flowers blooming in our garden right now.
Kaya’s Birthday — Today was Kaya’s sixth birthday! She still looks like a puppy but she’s a young adult in dog years… 🙂 She had a little party, we sang happy birthday and gave her a special cookie that she devoured in less than a minute. She also got a new toy bunny that will be slowly destroyed over the next few months.
Rush Hour!!
The Sun Rests After a Longer Day —
Today we started Daylight Saving Time in the US. Perhaps because of that, or maybe because it felt like early summer this weekend, there were hordes of people at the Santa Monica Pier waiting to bid farewell to the sun. It was a glorious sunset!
Colors!
Welcome to LAX!
I used to wonder what the “X” in LAX stood for. Eventually I found out that it doesn’t mean anything. Every airport must have a unique three-letter identifier to streamline the process of tracking the millions of items of airport data transmitted daily and Los Angeles chose to use an “X” as the third letter. Now, is it a coincidence that the word “lax” means, among other things, “not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful” or “relaxed”? Just saying… 🙂 I was there and snapped a few pics of the entrance, which is actually much prettier at night.
This week, Michele, of the Daily Post, invites us to “share a group of photos where orange is either the dominant color, or provides a bold highlight.” Easy!
Lines and Patterns
Los Angeles’ Official Trees Are Blooming!
No, not the Palm Trees! Believe it or not, the Palm Tree is not LA’s official tree, although its image is closely associated with the City of Angels. LA’s official tree is the “Coral Tree” (or Erythrina Caffra), a tree that can grow up to sixty feet in height, with impressive twisting limbs and spreading canopies. Coral trees start blooming late in the winter and their brilliant orange-scarlet blooms grow through much of the spring. A mature coral tree in full flower is quite a spectacular sight. So imagine what it’s like to drive the five-mile stretch of San Vicente Boulevard, on the West side of LA, when the 120 coral trees planted along its wide median are in full bloom! Too bad it’s quite a busy road so you can’t drive too leisurely, as other drivers may kill you! Well, not really… 🙂 San Vicente Boulevard happens to run just a block South of my house in Brentwood, so as I walked around looking for things to photograph for my daily post, I came upon these magnificent trees and decided they would be the subject of today’s post.
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