暖冬cool夏
这里一年四季温暖如春，没有酷暑没有严寒......
Under a leaden sky the valley looked dull but serene, with the moisture hanging in the air. As we stood at the top of the valley overlooking undulating mountaintops that were now in misty faint green, we felt like being environed in our old hometown in southern China. Except that there is a highway cutting through, on which cars were whizzing by noisily. But we are now so used to any modernization disruption.
In a rain-bountiful year, as in the spring of 2018, we came across a daisy-like flower called Gazania flower in this valley. The encounter was so impressive that he occasionally reminisces about it and craves for another rendezvous. On the same expected slope this time, we only saw sparingly five or six of them. Without sunshine, their petals were not fully spreading, but the color was just as showy and vivid.
On the downward trail, we attempted to identify the spiraling plants and shrubs on the roadsides by their names-- white sage, black sage, California buckwheat, coastal sagebrush, etc. From time to time, we pinched a tip of the leaves to sniff the bold and pungent smell. Sages are known herbal edibles, and Sagebrush, according to the introduction, was used by miners in bedding to drive away fleas or used to make a wash for wounds. Nature has offered us generously, but we are sometimes blind to their existence.
This spring, with the absence of dazzling large swaths of popular flowers, it's the show time for those who survive the drought and thrivingly bloom on the meadow. As we took pictures of them, our cameras in our hands were unfailingly doing the magic, packaging a plain-looking wild flower (like fiddleneck) with a touch of elegancy. The publicly acclaimed beauty of prickly pear cactus flowers or California state flower Golden poppies are all the more appealing under the lens.
Spring is fleeting here like most beautiful things in this world. As we relished the scenes and scents on the first Saturday of April, we felt lucky that we still have the peace and the peace of mind to be around them.
确实南加州的野花不少，也主要在春天。我们去过Joshua Tree 两次，也看到过沙漠里的野花和植物(还是冬天去的)。曾经有过superbloom年，看到过图片，沙漠上野花盛开，很奇特很漂亮的!
我一般会去网上查名字的。下面这个link就是google后看到的两种Mariposa lily,直接看image，有很多野百合。
谢谢大漠的再次临帖，保重！
https://www.google.com/search?q=mariposa+lily&sxsrf=APq-WBt5BO7Zr_wz2AcaVNEp2rr4U0y2eQ:1650736003863&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj98YLp3qr3AhUHEEQIHbYGACMQ_AUIBigB&biw=396&bih=711?
这花名也是标给自己看的，下次忘了可以来翻翻，还有一些其他的花的，都是南加州比较常见的。秋水最近有新作品吗？ 四月啦，来一首春天的歌吧！ 谢谢秋水临帖，周末快乐!
南加的野花绚丽多彩多姿，漂亮！暖冬好有心，都注上了花名，跟着学习了~~~
问候亲爱的暖冬，周末愉快！
刚刚在师傅家看到你的贴，我就不去回了，师傅家人在上海，受疫情影响大，师傅也没什么心情。谢谢你的留言，好言好语，暖冬牌猪肚时刻准备着:) 心城周末快乐，春天快乐!
我的院子里鹿兔常光顾，我的玫瑰出芽就被啃。其它像松鼠，老鼠，浣熊甚至黑熊等光顾过，不过还有不少它们不吃的花仍然让我的花园很绚丽.
野花拍得好漂亮！尤其是仙人掌花。
以前看子乔写她家松鼠，我还庆幸我们这没有松鼠。直到有一天在书房里，窗外围墙上有个影子一闪，追出去才知道哪里都有松鼠。我家枇杷不知是鸟还是松鼠来吃，每年总要损失一些。枣子通常是1/3喂了鸟，唯有金桔，基本无损。
暖冬春安！
花儿拍得真好！
你们家的枇杷今年结果了，真好啊! 第一年果子会比较少，慢慢会多起来。迪儿家后院大，阳光足，枇杷很能结的，就是怕小动物来偷吃，鸟吃的还是少量的。今年山花很不成气候的，我是闷在家里太久了想出去走走，碰巧拍了一些。谢谢迪儿临帖，祝四月春好!
我家的枇杷今春第一次有果子，就那么几串，也被吃了。我估计是鸟，但是吃相很好，盯着一个果子吃，这个果子吃得差不多才祸害下一个，让我特别感慨：-）
山花好漂亮。疫情把我变得好懒散，爬山常常偷懒，就是去了，也懒得拍照。
知道fiddlehead， 还从来没有见过fiddleneck， 好cute的植物！
好久不见，问候暖冬！
唉，看来大家都有被松鼠欺负的遭遇，比起你，我今年算幸运了，它发现我家后院有点晚了。我们还是吃到一些。加州这边因为阳光太好了，一年四季温暖，所以那些有大院子的真是种什么收获什么，不过野外的野花春天才有，其他季节太旱了，没有雨水，所以一年最美的季节还是春天。谢谢Lily临帖，祝你们的春天早日来临!
I had one chalk liveforever, but it died this spring. So there is no such a thing as liveforever:)) Thanks, my friend.
Are you sure your neighborhood has lots of chalk liveforever? This is chalk-colored with powder-like covering on the surface. There is another similar more commonly-seen one, and that one is normally multiplied with more of itself, and could look taller and bigger. (I don't know the name yet:))
Right, we were trying to educate ourselves on different kinds of plants on the trip. The more we know, the more we feel bound with nature.
Thank you, my friend. Enjoy your spring there too!
acquaintance with these wonderful plants through your lens. The outdoors must be
like a botanical garden for you two.
I feel sure that someday I will run into gazania and fiddlenecks and will keep
an eye open for black sage and sagebrush. 'Chalk liveforever' comes at last
as they are abundant in my neighborhood and I wondered about their name
every time I saw them. What an interesting name by the way. Now I can proudly
call them out:-) Thank you very much for sharing.
照片漂亮!
松鼠在我朋友的阁楼上做了一个窝，朋友把窝拆除了。第二天早上，她出门上班，看见松鼠从她的汽车下面钻出来，也许是昨天拆了松鼠窝的缘故，她对松鼠的举动多了份警觉，趴下身去查看。你猜，她发现了什么？松鼠居然用茅草把汽车排废气的管子给堵上了！：）
这个故事里面，有两点值得商讨：一，这只松鼠是那只松鼠吗？二，即使是同一只，松鼠的举动是不是巧合呢？如果两点被排除，那么松鼠的智商真是太高了，比乌鸦的智商还要高。
哈哈哈，暖冬的《人鼠之间》真是写得太有趣了，记得暖冬好像也介绍过这个小说，有点记不清了？这篇还让我想到了心城的松鼠篇。某人的事情，我也喜欢读！
好羡慕加州可以爬山，看野花，摄影棒极了，真想飞过来！：）
是的，上周一下了一场大雨，可能有帮助吧。大自然千奇百态，孕育着各种各样的神奇，走进自然，总是有很多收获和感悟。
我现在走不多，很容易脚后跟痛。小小也要注意，不要走多了，膝盖这些都会有磨损的。
谢谢小小的阅读和夸赞，祝春好!
一边暗暗庆幸，我们这里没有松鼠，不然我一树的枇杷也完蛋了~~~，更珍惜我家树上的枇杷了：））
暖冬又去爬山啦，野花拍得好漂亮，它们生命力真顽强，今年的雨水少，它们能在这么干旱的条件下依然怒放，太赞了！
这个周末家里来客人，我们也外出游玩爬山，与暖冬同爱好啊，周末只要有机会就会外出爬山运动！
问好暖冬，温馨朴实真切的文字，读来亲切，新周愉快！