We're having a party today! Well, it seems like it, at least, with all of the fun photos that we have now, that we took yesterday, March 1, 2009 on Lower Laurel Trail in Laguna Canyon (accessible only by foot from the Willow Staging Area / Parking Lot or Willow Trail or Upper Laurel Trail).
Here are the magnificent flowers we observed yesterday on Lower Laurel:
- Blue Dicks
- California buttercup
- Canyon Pea
- Chickweed
- Common Deerweed
- Milkmaids were doing well and just developing in some areas of Lower Laurel, while we had spotted them in December at the Aliso and Wood Canyon park.
- Miner's Lettuce (bigger flowers now)
- Mulefat
- Rattlesnake Spurge
- Shortpod Mustard (non-native invasive)
- Sycamore in bloom! :)
- The Lance-leaved Dudleya was shooting up its stalks! :)
- The California False Indigo was leafing out... slowly :)
- The Poison Oak is leafing out!
- Bush Mallow had some new leaves as well...
- Johnny Jump-Ups (Lots of them!)
- Storksbill
- Red Maids
- California Poppy
- Tidy Tips
Also, how about the FUN INSECTS we saw on Lower Laurel :) ? We saw a few butterflies (too fast to photograph), a caterpillar on common fiddleneck, and a lovely ladybug on grass! :)
There were no California Poppies on Lower Laurel yet. We have had reports of them up on the ridges. We saw them last week on Serrano Ridge.
There are still lots of Toyon berries on the Toyon trees on Lower Laurel.
It was super-hot this weekend, reaching at least 87 degrees F in the canyon (when I was there!). Now we are being blessed with a little bit more rainfall - as I write this post it is raining in Irvine, CA, about 6 miles from the Lower Laurel Trail. Check the status of Park Closures in Orange County before you go out hiking: www.ocparks.com.
More soon!
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