Unmistakeable...

...is that heady jasmine musk. I like how this one found a way to bind itself to the street post.

I spy with my little eye...

...something that begins with a "J."

Remembering things past -- we used to while away time in the car playing this game.

Ours often morphed into the tree version of I Spy, where we guessed the correct names of trees lining the boulevard as we puttered by in our 1979 Ford Fairmont.

Jacaranda! In full bloom today...

Hey, sweet pea...

...what are you doing in a prickly, briery place like this?

Magnolia...

are in full regalia.

Beau and I stumbled upon these magnolia grandiflora during our walk this morning.

When I was a kid, we had a huge magnolia tree on our front boulevard. Once the blooms came, we knew it was time to get ready for summer...

Even this bee is preparing...

Uh, no.

This always makes me sad. Today on a walk, we came across this unfortunately tagged, rehabilitated, rebranded and carved eucalyptus.

For the mothers...

and for those who inspire, bring forth attention.

Survival of the fittest.

An insistent Spanish Broom (spartium junceum) emerges from a concrete gutter.

Darwin would be proud.