Palomar Observatory 3

Posted on April 21, 2004 in Biomes Photos Travels - So Cal

This tree is a redbud.

The way California works is like this: if you miss the bloom at the three thousand foot level, you can catch it in a week or two a thousand feet higher.

The manzanita around Camp Stevens already had fingernail sized green “apples” growing from them. Mount Palomar, which is two thousand feet higher than the area around Julian and had, until a couple of weeks before Easter, a snowpack, presented its first blooms in perfect sync with western Christianity’s Easter. By now, the bloom must be at the 7000 to 8000 foot level. If you’re hungry for spring in these parts, just climb the mountain.

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