Mustard bush from Spain ( =missioners)

Sespe Conglomerate

Brents Mountain from Tapia Park

Sycamore Oaks

The San Fernando Valley and San Gabriel Mountains from near Castle Peak

Got caught in some showers this afternoon on Rocky Peak, returning from a rambling trail run from the San Fernando Valley over into Simi Valley

Early morning at Century Lake. From Sunday''s Bulldog loop trail run in Malibu Creek State Park

Tapia Park

Tapia Park - hippie

A baby rattlesnake

Tapia Park in the Fall

Calabasas Mntn

Tapia Park

Tapia Park

Tapia park

Tapia park

Tapia park

Tapia park

Tapia park

Tapia park

New growth on the chaparral shrub laurel sumac (Malosma laurina) at Sage Ranch Park.

The Strawberry - Bear Canyon loop trail run is a longer, more adventurous variation of the circuit around Strawberry Peak

A Winter bloomer, California prickly phlox (Leptodactylon californicum) likes warm, rocky, southwest facing slopes where it can bask in the afternoon sun. The flowers have a subtle, musty-sweet fragrance that is especially pleasant when encountered on a still evening, in fading twilight, near the end of a run.

From Sunday''s Cheeseboro Bound run

Two runners climb up the last yards of a hill before descending into Las Virgenes Canyon in Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve

Century Lake

Cayote Bush

Cayote Bush

Satwiwa native area

Satwiwa native area

Satwiwa native area

Wild Walnats

California Gooseberry

California Barberry

black raspberry

Malva - http://www.bloghelden.com/miluna-tuanis-korsika-literatur-blog-korsika-fr/

California wild rose

Western sycamore or California sycamore Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center and Natural Area

Point Mugu State Park: Big Sycamore Canyon Trail, oak woodland, Verbena lasiostachys var. scabrida vervain, common verbena, western verbena

Western Sycamore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_racemosa

Western sycamore or California sycamore

California hazelnut (Corylus cornuta ssp. californica),

deergrass

Wild Malva

Sycamore Canyon Waterfall, Point Mugu State Park, CA

Sycamore Canyon Waterfall, Point Mugu State Park, CA

Leather Root

Datura spring bloom near Point Mugu State Park,

Sycamore Canyon, Point Mugu State Park,is home to a resident population of parakeets

Sycamore canyon

Calabasas