What a Treat!

We decided to go out to the Elfin Forrest Reserve again and we were met with everything blooming! It is crazy to think in just a few more months the plants will all be in survival mode with the heat and dryness. They are beautiful now!! California Lilac

I was really taken with it!!
The hillsides were spotted bluish purple with them!

The flowers are not as big as the ones that grew in my yard in Connecticut, but beautiful all the same!!

Miner's Lettuce

So tiny!!

Maybe - Red Columbine

The reservoir, we've had LOTS of rain (for here anyway)!!

Same as the maybe Red Columbine!

Some kind of Lily!

Half way back down from the reservoir we got a nice view of the ocean!

This looks like some kind of Morning Glory, but I am not sure which!

Pacific Pea

I love mushrooms, so cute!! My husband teases me about photographing fungi!! :)

What we call mustard plant, it is everywhere here because the Padres planted it along the trail to lead from one Mission to another up the whole coast of California. Now they are everywhere!!

And how could we be in California without the California Poppy! So pretty and cheerful!!

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Watch for our next batch of photos, we went out to the Anza Borrego Desert to see the wildflowers blooming!!

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And I found this on another homeschooling mom's blog, it is a live cam of a mama barn owl and her babes. It is broadcast from the next town over from us. When I was growing up we often had barn owls in one of out tall palms, and occasionally a baby would fall out. The mama could not get it back in the tree so we would get it in a box (no small feat, there mean!!) and call a local man who took care of wild animals and then released them. He had a pet mountain lion that would follow him around like a dog!!