暖冬cool夏
這裏一年四季溫暖如春，沒有酷暑沒有嚴寒......
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.
確實南加州的野花不少，也主要在春天。我們去過Joshua Tree 兩次，也看到過沙漠裏的野花和植物(還是冬天去的)。曾經有過superbloom年，看到過圖片，沙漠上野花盛開，很奇特很漂亮的!
我一般會去網上查名字的。下麵這個link就是google後看到的兩種Mariposa lily,直接看image，有很多野百合。
謝謝大漠的再次臨帖，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?
這花名也是標給自己看的，下次忘了可以來翻翻，還有一些其他的花的，都是南加州比較常見的。秋水最近有新作品嗎？ 四月啦，來一首春天的歌吧！ 謝謝秋水臨帖，周末快樂!
南加的野花絢麗多彩多姿，漂亮！暖冬好有心，都注上了花名，跟著學習了~~~
問候親愛的暖冬，周末愉快！
剛剛在師傅家看到你的貼，我就不去回了，師傅家人在上海，受疫情影響大，師傅也沒什麽心情。謝謝你的留言，好言好語，暖冬牌豬肚時刻準備著:) 心城周末快樂，春天快樂!
我的院子裏鹿兔常光顧，我的玫瑰出芽就被啃。其它像鬆鼠，老鼠，浣熊甚至黑熊等光顧過，不過還有不少它們不吃的花仍然讓我的花園很絢麗.
野花拍得好漂亮！尤其是仙人掌花。
以前看子喬寫她家鬆鼠，我還慶幸我們這沒有鬆鼠。直到有一天在書房裏，窗外圍牆上有個影子一閃，追出去才知道哪裏都有鬆鼠。我家枇杷不知是鳥還是鬆鼠來吃，每年總要損失一些。棗子通常是1/3喂了鳥，唯有金桔，基本無損。
暖冬春安！
花兒拍得真好！
你們家的枇杷今年結果了，真好啊! 第一年果子會比較少，慢慢會多起來。迪兒家後院大，陽光足，枇杷很能結的，就是怕小動物來偷吃，鳥吃的還是少量的。今年山花很不成氣候的，我是悶在家裏太久了想出去走走，碰巧拍了一些。謝謝迪兒臨帖，祝四月春好!
我家的枇杷今春第一次有果子，就那麽幾串，也被吃了。我估計是鳥，但是吃相很好，盯著一個果子吃，這個果子吃得差不多才禍害下一個，讓我特別感慨：-）
山花好漂亮。疫情把我變得好懶散，爬山常常偷懶，就是去了，也懶得拍照。
知道fiddlehead， 還從來沒有見過fiddleneck， 好cute的植物！
好久不見，問候暖冬！
唉，看來大家都有被鬆鼠欺負的遭遇，比起你，我今年算幸運了，它發現我家後院有點晚了。我們還是吃到一些。加州這邊因為陽光太好了，一年四季溫暖，所以那些有大院子的真是種什麽收獲什麽，不過野外的野花春天才有，其他季節太旱了，沒有雨水，所以一年最美的季節還是春天。謝謝Lily臨帖，祝你們的春天早日來臨!
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!
鬆鼠在我朋友的閣樓上做了一個窩，朋友把窩拆除了。第二天早上，她出門上班，看見鬆鼠從她的汽車下麵鑽出來，也許是昨天拆了鬆鼠窩的緣故，她對鬆鼠的舉動多了份警覺，趴下身去查看。你猜，她發現了什麽？鬆鼠居然用茅草把汽車排廢氣的管子給堵上了！：）
這個故事裏麵，有兩點值得商討：一，這隻鬆鼠是那隻鬆鼠嗎？二，即使是同一隻，鬆鼠的舉動是不是巧合呢？如果兩點被排除，那麽鬆鼠的智商真是太高了，比烏鴉的智商還要高。
哈哈哈，暖冬的《人鼠之間》真是寫得太有趣了，記得暖冬好像也介紹過這個小說，有點記不清了？這篇還讓我想到了心城的鬆鼠篇。某人的事情，我也喜歡讀！
好羨慕加州可以爬山，看野花，攝影棒極了，真想飛過來！：）
是的，上周一下了一場大雨，可能有幫助吧。大自然千奇百態，孕育著各種各樣的神奇，走進自然，總是有很多收獲和感悟。
我現在走不多，很容易腳後跟痛。小小也要注意，不要走多了，膝蓋這些都會有磨損的。
謝謝小小的閱讀和誇讚，祝春好!
一邊暗暗慶幸，我們這裏沒有鬆鼠，不然我一樹的枇杷也完蛋了~~~，更珍惜我家樹上的枇杷了：））
暖冬又去爬山啦，野花拍得好漂亮，它們生命力真頑強，今年的雨水少，它們能在這麽幹旱的條件下依然怒放，太讚了！
這個周末家裏來客人，我們也外出遊玩爬山，與暖冬同愛好啊，周末隻要有機會就會外出爬山運動！
問好暖冬，溫馨樸實真切的文字，讀來親切，新周愉快！