Wildflower season

As I promised last week, not much this happened this weekend. Mitchell was feeling better by Sunday so we went for a quick walk around sycamore canyon park. 


There was even water in the stream!

Because of all the rain this winter, the blooms of wildflowers are out all over California. This park is usually all brown and dusty, with just some glorified sticks pretending to be shrubs dotted around. This time, it was green all over the hills, with whole fields of flowers. 



They were mostly small flowers in white and yellow and purple, but we also found some bright orange California poppies. They are a very popular sight to visit, and a large field near Lake Elsinore actually had to close this year because too many people were walking over the flowers and destroying the blooms. There wasn't as many in our park, but it was still exciting to find them. 


That was it for our weekend as Mitchell was recovering and it wasn't great weather. This week we've been working on our taxes which are hard in America as we have to calculate how much we owe and we have a billion forms to do as we're changing our resident status. Hopefully, it will all be worth it though, as we should be getting back lots of money. 

This week has also been horrible weather, we haven't had snow like some areas of LA, but all the mountains around us have very white snowy tops, even some which are usually bare all year round. We have had a lot more rain and even a dark day of hail and thunder though. 

Just a little dusting on this mountain top

We've booked to go to the desert to see some more wildflower blooms in April, and I'm hoping this late rain will make a superbloom, and not just wash them away, but we'll have to see!

Lots of love,

Emily and Mitchell

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