
The first cherry blossoms of spring have arrived at a local garden. With our past week’s heat wave (90+ F), the spring bloom in the hills is fading, and I was worried the cherry blossoms would have been blighted. Not so – at least for a few!

The first cherry blossoms of spring have arrived at a local garden. With our past week’s heat wave (90+ F), the spring bloom in the hills is fading, and I was worried the cherry blossoms would have been blighted. Not so – at least for a few!

The blooms of different flowers is beginning at the local botanical garden, one of the earliest of which is hummingbird sage.


Every year I enjoy the sweetness of the freesias planted outside the front door.
