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Purple and white California lupine at San Diego Mission Trails Regional Park

The color purple

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San Diego County is home to many types of plants and flowers and Spring is the best season to spot colorful blooms. By the time June comes, everything turns to yellow and brown so you need to enjoy the blooms while they last. Lilac blooms are my favorite for sure (more lilac blooms here).

This past Spring, as I was hiking in a regional park called San Diego Mission Trails park, I noticed a beautiful purple flower on the side of the path. I kneeled down to take the photo below of this lupine plant. I call it the color purple.

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

The color purple - California lupine at San Diego Mission Trails Regional Park — The color purple – California lupine at San Diego Mission Trails Regional Park

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Focus - Sweet pea flower in Idyllwild, California

Sweet pea, you’re so pretty

The small town of Idyllwild, California, is famous for its strawberry creek and its strawberry plants all over town. But after visiting the town a couple of times, I’ve figured out sweet peas also are a popular sight all over. The blooms are either bright pink or white and you’ll often see patches of both colors blending in together.

Sweet pea flowers are very simple but they’re also very pretty. Nature really knows how to make the best out of every plant.

Sweet pea flower in Idyllwild, California

September 10, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, PhotographyTags: blooms, idyllwild california, photo of sweet pea flowers, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, sweet pea bloom photo, sweet pea flower photo, sweet pea photo Leave a comment

Cluster of pink flowers blooming on a tree

Beautiful tree blossoms, if I just knew what they were

San Diego County is home to many native and non-native plants and trees. Besides the dense California sage brush, the many types of cactus, and the annoying, ugly eucalyptus everywhere you look, you can be lucky and find some gems, especially during blooming season.

I still have a to take a great picture of a jacaranda tree (it will have to be next May or June) but in the meantime, I’d like to share these beautiful tree blooms. I actually have no idea what type of tree this is but I love the bold pink flower clusters that cover it in the spring.

May 2013 update: thanks to one of my visitors, I found out this tree is called a purple robe locust. Just beautiful!

Beautiful pink flower clusters on a purple robe locust

Here is a close-up of this tree’s pink flowers. Simply gorgeous.

Cluster of pink flowers blooming on a tree in San Diego

September 7, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Tree PhotosTags: bright pink flower clusters on tree, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, photos of trees, purple robe locust, purple robe locust blooms, purple robe locust flowers, san diego trees, tree with pink flower clusters, tree with pink flowers Leave a comment

Wildflower blooms in the spring in Southern California

Wildflower blooms in Southern California

I spotted these beautiful spring wildflower blooms in Dos Picos Park, Ramona, California, Spring 2012. The weather wasn’t perfect (it was cloudy most of the day) but it gave the park an eerie light, which made for some very nice photos of wildflower blooms. Almost out of this world.

Click on the photos of wildflower blooms for larger size.

June 12, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant PhotosTags: blooms, California pictures, dos picos, dos picos park, flowers, photography, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, photos of plants, Photos of San Diego, plants photos, ramona california, San Diego california, spring blooms photos, wild flowers photos, wildflower blooms photos, wildflowers Leave a comment

Lilac Blooms – A Spring Favorite

Here are some close-up photos of beautiful wild Ramona lilac blooms in the spring. I took these lilac bloom photos in Dos Picos County Park, Ramona, California.

Click on each photo of the lilac blooms for a larger view.