Kasili spikes — over my head 
Deerweed, playfully doing “the Burning Bush.”
Tra la, it’s May! View what’s in (Super!)bloom at the Nature Center in Eaton Canyon.
Beautiful buckwheat — Eriogonum fasciculatum
I missed the cholla blossoms by one day! 
Cute, but… 
The sweetest, biggest, and most dazzling, lizard I’ve ever seen.
Yellow pincushions; Claenactis glabriuscula 
Sagebrush: mugwort; Louisiana wormwood; Artemisia ludoviciana. 
Blue Phacelia 
…Wild Scorpiontails
The cloudy morning (on Cinco de Mayo, yet!) made the penstemon gleam like neon.
Huge matilija poppies; ten feet tall; inviting “Tall Poppy Syndrome.”
A yucca gloriosa, unfurling its gloriosity
The Valley Village View 