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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is the season of spring. Spring is my favorite season, especially in San Diego. I love witnessing the rebirth of nature and noticing all the beautiful colors popping up around town.
I’m using the gallery format to feature my photos of spring. You can click on any photo below to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!
Yellow rose about to open
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego
Purple and whote Ramona lilac in bloom
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walking down the trail
Trail bordered by Ramona lilacs
Macro Monday: Small purple wildflowers
Travel theme: delicate rain drop on grass
Close-up of pink manuka flowers
A word a week – violet wildflowers with dew drops
Close-up of the pear blossoms in Balboa Park
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the hue of you – lampranthus productus iceplant
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I’m going to use this photo challenge as an opportunity to feature a few more of the rose photos I took this past weekend at the rose garden in San Diego’s Balboa Park. You can see the other rose photos here and here.
Here’s another multicolored rose that featured a pleasant rose fragrance. It helps that it’s also very pretty to look at.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a multicolored rose
I loved the fragrance of the next rose. It had a very delicate and pure scent. Mmmmmm…
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a fragrant rose
Other flowers can smell very look, including lavender, which comes in many varieties and sizes.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of lavender
One scent I really enjoy is the one of wet dirt and grass after the rain. This after the rain scent is not too common in San Diego so I love it when it happens.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of wet dirt after the rain
My favorite flower fragrance is lilac blossoms. Unfortunately common lilacs don’t like the San Diego hot and dry weather too much, so we find a different type here in nature called the Ramona lilac. Its scent is very, very light but it still looks pretty.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of Ramona lilac blossoms
For my last photo, I’ll share one of my favorite scents: the smell of the ocean, here at Coronado Beach. I love the mix of iodine, salt and seaweed. Can you smell it?
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Once you take a trail at the back of Dos Picos County Park and pass the enchanted stone steps I showcased last week, you find yourself walking on a path bordered with many Ramona lilacs. If you hike in the spring, when the lilacs are in bloom, this is what you get to see as you follow the trail:
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail in Dos Picos County Park
And it only gets better as you walk along. Here’s a blast of green, purple and bright blue! I know, I still owe you a few close-ups of the Ramona lilacs, but at least you can see what the lilac trees look like full size. Aren’t they pretty?
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail bordered by Ramona lilacs
Another favorite spot where we enjoy hiking in Louis Stelzer County Park. On the day I took the photos below, the sky was completely gray but everything on the ground looked very green. In a couple of months, most of it will turn to yellow or brown, and the green probably won’t return until next January.
Here’s the trail that follows the side of the hill. This trail is fun to walk on a cloudy day, but I avoid it like the plague in the heat of summer since there’s no shade.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail at Louis Stelzer County Park
Fortunately, this park offers a lot of wooded areas by the small creek. This is a great trail to walk on any day of the year. This is as green as it gets in San Diego.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green trail at Louis Stelzer County Park
Like many parks in San Diego County, this park is full of coast live oak trees, which tend to feature many thick, often contorted branches. Look how this large tree branch curves over the trail to create an arch.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trail with coast live oak trees
To me, there’s nothing more pleasant than walking down a shaded trail to make me feel in unison with nature. What about you?
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Spring happens a little differently in San Diego. The early signs of spring come very early, usually by the end of February, and by the time the end of May is here, everything turns yellow and brown from the hot sun rays. As a sign of renewal and rebirth, spring is my favorite season. Here are a few photos of what spring in San Diego looks like to me. Remember you can click on each photo to see a larger image.
I took this photo of dew just last week. Dew usually happens before spring starts here. After that, our mornings are too warm. You can view more photos of dew here.
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Here are some photos of lilac trees in bloom at Dos Picos County Park, Ramona, California. I took these photos in the spring, on a cloudy day, which made for great lighting effects.
Click on each photos of the lilac trees for a larger view.
This photo below is my favorite. I have never seen grass with such a bright, light shade of green. It seemed so surreal, I knew I had to take a picture of it. I bet that grass turned dry and yellow a few weeks later, but natural green grass is such an uncommon sight in San Diego, this was a treat.
Lilac and green, for a beautiful spring picture
Ramona lilacs have smaller flowers than regular lilac trees and they don’t smell anything (the disappointing part) but they’re still very beautiful.
Ramona lilac tree in bloom
Here’s the whole picture, with the lush green grass in the front and the many lilac trees in the back.
Ramona lilac trees in bloom in Dos Picos Park, Ramona, California
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