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New spring growth |
Lone valley oak |
I took a hike up East Canyon Trail, Santa Clarita |
Sometimes it's hard to tell in the southland but spring is here |
Sunday afternoon drive to the Carrizo Plains National Monument. Carpet of Goldfields |
Blue phacelia and goldfields, near California Valley, Carrizo Plains |
On the drive home, I spotted an elusive kit fox on the side of the road near the Temblor range |
Last Saturday, Daniel and I got up real early for drive out to the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve |
The poppies open up with the sunlight around 10am |
Sea of California poppies |
Daniel, enjoying a little nap |
Early in the day we were yelled at for walking off the trail |
Blooming Joshua tree, north of the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve |
Native joshuas and junipers once grew in great abundance throughout the Antelope Valley. Arthur B. Ripley Desert Woodland State Park |
Another afternoon at the Griffith Park Observatory-You can faintly see the Hollywood sign is in the distance |
The historic Griffith Observatory |
Astronomers Monument |
The observatory illuminated by the city lights of Los Angeles |
New depths of space exhibit. The Big Picture exhibit showing over a million real stars, galaxies, and other celestial objects, stunning detail of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies and beyond |
Downtown Los Angeles on a clear night |
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