The narcissus are in bloom

[pjthompson]

They don't know it's November. The weather's been so crazy here at the coast in SoCal lately, foggy then hot, back and forth, that I guess it's fooled them into thinking it's early spring. So we have little white stars scattered throughout the yard. And they have such a delicate, sweet fragrance. The bougainvillea is looking quite impressive, too. Lots of crimson showing over the horseshoe arch it's growing on.

The blooming times are always strange here, unlike anywhere else in the country. In fact, I remember a college geography prof saying that there are only two places on the planet with weather like we have here in SoCal. The other place is the Mediterranean, the Riviera. I know when I was in Nice and Monaco it seemed oddly familiar.

Of course, I like what they've done with the place much more than I like what we've done with the place. Sometimes when I see yet another strip mall or golf course or housing tract forcing green lawns on the desert, crowding out the natural flow of the land, I think, "We could be developing this land like they do in the south of France, but instead we've got Wal-Mart."

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Amen. yeag, another heat wave nigh, sigh.

[pjthompson]

Yeah, sick of it. Just when you thought it was safe to break out the turtle necks...

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

It's never safe until the overcast comes back in March. if it does. We'll be having this switchback for the next five months--we can just hope that one or two of the weather patterns actually brings rain before triggering off the next siege of Santa Anas, or that the latter don't stretch on for weeks and weeks.

[pjthompson]

Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain...

[makoiyi.livejournal.com]

You rotten lot! It's been minus eight all frickin week and you are talking about flowers. No fair! Rich came home from 37 to snow.

Seriously, I know it does snow occasionally in California but I think I would miss snow if I didn't have it. I do like the 'seasons, even if we only get two here. Damned hot and damned cold. :)

[pjthompson]

You rotten lot! It's been minus eight all frickin week and you are talking about flowers. No fair!

::snicker:: And we're having a heat wave today. 80s (F) even at the beach.

I know it does snow occasionally in California

In the mountains east of here and north. I was 21 before I ever saw snow, and that was in the Alps! :-)

Damned hot and damned cold.

A friend who grew up in humid New Jersey said the reason he liked to live in California was the low humidity summers rather than the winters.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

gobal warming! Run!!! Run for your lives!!!!

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

Won't that just make more hot air?

[pjthompson]

Never underestimate the heating potential of panting.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

good point.

Get in your car and Drive! Drive as fast as you can with the a/c cranked!!!

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

lol

[pjthompson]

Maybe! But the weather's always like this in the fall here, and some of the bulbs always get fooled. Last year it was the daffodils and irises. But yeah, run!!

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

pretty. but deadly.

enjoy it while you can, mwah ha ha-- oh wait, is Halloween over?